How Globalization has Changed Diplomacy

How Has Globalization Affected Inflation?

market economies has remained remarkably subdued over the past two years despite a significant rise in commodity prices, strong growth, and a broadly accommodating monetary policy stance in the major currency areas. Is this situation sustainable or does it foreshadow unwelcome inflation surprises in the near future? Some analysts have argued that low and stable inflation reflects more intense g...

Discussion of “ Has Globalization Changed the Phillips Curve ? ” ∗

This paper by Eugenio Gaiotti is a refutation paper: it tests and rejects the idea popularized by Borio and Filardo (2007) that globalization explains the flattening of the Phillips curve. While several papers have already been devoted to assessing the Borio and Filardo theory, the distinctive feature of the present article is that it uses microeconomic data. Microeconomic data can be helpful i...

Responding to Changing Family Organization How Has Policy Responded? How Has Family Organization Changed?

parent, generally their mother. Divorce rates rose dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s and have remained high. At the same time, more individuals are waiting to older ages to marry, or are not marrying at all, thus increasing the period during which women are at risk of a nonmarital birth. By the late 1990s, 26 percent of white children, 41 percent of Hispanic children, and 69 percent of black ...

Tuberculosis control: how the world has changed since 1990.

In 1990 the Commission on Health Research for Development stated that ‘‘The magnitude of the tuberculosis problem is matched only by its relative neglect by the international community.’’ (1) A decade later, in March 2000, ministers of health and finance from the 20 countries that have 80% of the world’s tuberculosis cases met in Amsterdam and issued the Amsterdam Declaration. This stated that ...

How Much Has the Supreme Court Changed Patent Law