Introduction Globalisation and Insecurity

Globalisation, Instability and Economic Insecurity

This paper documents and analyses the volatility of economic growth in rich and poor countries. It concludes that whereas volatility has declined almost universally in advanced countries, the picture is more mixed for developing countries. The paper then concentrates on the case of India, where GDP volatility has declined over the past two decades. The evidence shows that the move away from agr...

Introduction: Globalisation, Value Chains and Development

Globalisation has become a catchword for the international economy in the late 20th century. It is a truism that nations have become more interdependent through the flows of goods, services, and financial capital since the 1 970s. The growing importance of export-oriented industrialisation has made integration into the global economy virtually synonymous with development for a number of nations...

Introduction to Special Issue on Globalisation, Culture and Mental Health

1 “ Japan , the post - 9 / 11 security agenda , globalisation , and the political economy of inequality and insecurity ”

Japan has been heavily affected by the post-9/11 security environment to the degree that it may precipitate significant, if as yet still incremental, changes in the overall trajectory of its own security policy. Japan on the global level has shared US concerns about the spread of terrorism, and on the regional level these concerns have been reflected in the problems of potential links between a...

AIDS and globalisation.