"He has placed himself at the very centre of the central conversations of our time: about wealth and poverty, fairness and justice, transparency, modernity, globalisation, the role of women, the nature of marriage, the temptations of power".
They were not realised, at least in part because the world had learnt from that dreadful decade the lesson that protectionism makes a bad situation worse.Yet a subtler change took place: unfettered globalisation has been replaced by a more selective brand.
You bit, pointing out that no amount of hand-wringing about inequality can undo a simple fact that the real losers in today's global economy live in Africa, rural India and other places that globalisation has bypassed.You both miss the two real challenges that global inequality poses.
But globalisation has trickled into this remote place, with plastic flip-flops and basic cooking pots, their price - $8 - still scribbled on in black pen.
Globalisation has reduced the differences between many places on the globe.
Perhaps the anti-globalists are on to something.Rapid globalisation has done nothing to undermine the confidence liberals have always placed in trade.
Globalisation has made the world such a tiny place that it seems increasingly irrelevant to say whether I'm English or American: we both appear to be eating out of the same trough".
The rise of globalisation has meant that cotton is grown in one place, woven in another and then clothing can be put together somewhere else entirely.
Globalisation has prompted countries to evaluate their position on trade in health services.
The trouble for him is that America is already a pretty deregulated place, and many voters feel that globalisation has brought them much less than was promised (and bankers a lot more).
