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Like it or hate it, NAFTA is not a big deal for the US economy - and renegotiating should not be a priority for the new president 05 April 2008 in Published articles | Trade | United States | US elections | Washington Post | 0 Opportunity knocks Progress, December 2007. Britain's Labour government must persuade the public of the overwhelming benefits of immigration 05 December 2007 in Britain | Immigration | Progress | Published articles | 3 Border wars Worth, September 2007. Does immigration reform dig a gigantic money pit, or does it open the floodgates of fiscal opportunity? Counterpoint to article by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation. 06 September 2007 in Immigration | Published articles | Worth | 0 The case for immigration The International Economy, Summer 2007. 05 September 2007 in Immigration | Published articles | The International Economy | 6 The case for opening Europe's borders wide to migrant workers Europe's World, June 2007. Efforts to tighten immigration controls and even bring them into line across Europe are short-sighted and unworkable. The EU's growing hunger for even unskilled labour means they are also economically flawed 13 June 2007 in Europe | Europe's World | Immigration | Published articles | 0 Better than nothing ForeignPolicy.com, May 2007. From phantom security enhancements to a complicated points system that only a bureaucrat could love, the immigration compromise before the US Senate is worse than nearly every realistic alternative except one: more of the same. 23 May 2007 in Foreign Policy | Immigration | Published articles | United States | 2 Migrant tax would slash illegal entry into Europe Financial Times, 25 April 2007. It is time that Europe’s politicians admitted to voters that governments cannot stop people moving across borders. If open borders are politically unacceptable, Europe should create a legal route for people from developing nations to come and work, regulated through an extra payroll tax on foreign workers. 24 April 2007 in Europe | Financial Times | Immigration | Published articles | 2 Första steget mot fri invandring Neo, March/April 2007. 28 March 2007 in Immigration | Neo | Published articles | 0 Migrant nation The West Australian, 17 February 2007. Australia would benefit from more immigrants, but the Howard government's preoccupation with skilled migrants is a mistake 08 March 2007 in Australia | Immigration | Published articles | The West Australian | 0 Open up to migrants Adelaide Advertiser, 10 February 2007. A more relaxed immigration policy would benefit Australia's economy, workforce and ageing population 08 March 2007 in Adelaide Advertiser | Australia | Immigration | Published articles | 0 Migrants at work Management Today, February 2007. Foreign workers make a huge contribution to the UK economy, bringing skills, creativity, experience and willing hands. We should welcome them 06 February 2007 in Britain | Business | Immigration | Management Today | Published articles | 0 Don't believe this claptrap. Migrants are no threat to us The Guardian, 15 January 2007. Immigration energises our economy, and has made many Britons more productive. We should welcome it 15 January 2007 in Immigration | Published articles | The Guardian | 6 Mr Reid's continental dog's breakfast The Times, 26 October 2006. The policy restricting Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants is confused and unworkable 26 October 2006 in Britain | Immigration | Published articles | The Times | 2 Inefficient markets Prospect, October 2006. Apple's threat to sue companies that use the word "Pod" in product names is reminiscent of the bully-boy tactics that made Microsoft so unpopular in the 1990s 21 September 2006 in Business | Europe | Global Economy | Prospect | Published articles | 0 Inefficient markets Prospect, September 2006. Disappointment at Doha, but it wasn’t all America’s fault. Is BP having too much bad luck? And Wolfowitz demands that the World Bank stops corruption 22 August 2006 in Business | Global Economy | IMF/World Bank | Prospect | Published articles | Trade | 0 Inefficient markets Prospect, August 2006. Higher energy prices are likely to mean rising inflation and slower growth. Plus the misguided populism of EU commissioners 26 July 2006 in Business | Europe | Global Economy | Prospect | Published articles | Trade | 0 Globalisation is working Prospect, August 2006. Contrary to Robert Wade's arguments, countries that open up their economies tend to prosper. We need to help more of them reap globalisation's benefits 26 July 2006 in Globalisation | Prospect | Published articles | 3 Inefficient markets Prospect, July 2006. Shareholder capitalism finally makes it into law. And the NGO's flawed accountability charter shows they don't practice what they preach 20 June 2006 in Britain | Business | Globalisation | Prospect | Published articles | 0 Inefficient markets Prospect, June 2006. David Cameron has joined in the Tesco-bashing, but the OFT should leave it alone. And the IMF is proving better at spin than at giving poorer countries votes 23 May 2006 in Global Economy | Prospect | Published articles | 0 Inefficient markets Prospect, May 2006. The outlook for the Doha round may not be as bad as it looks; why a dreary North sea gas pipeline is at the centre of things; and Gordon Brown's productivity problem 20 April 2006 in Other | Prospect | Published articles | Trade | 0 Do corporations rule? As part of the BBC's Who Runs Your World? series, the BBC News Website asked two experts to debate whether global corporations are the most powerful beasts in the jungle. 23 September 2005 in BBC Online | Corporate power | Debates | Published articles | 2 The socialist who can breathe life into free trade From September 1st, the shaky prospects for freer world trade will rest on the shoulders of a French socialist. With the World Trade Organisation's Doha round deadlocked and little time... 01 September 2005 in Financial Times | Published articles | Trade | 0 No-voters score own goal against Europe Tony Blair must be thanking his lucky stars. The British prime minister never wanted to fight a referendum campaign on the European Union constitutional treaty that he stood a good... 08 June 2005 in Europe | Financial Times | Published articles | 0 French myth-making Many French people rejected the constitution because they regard Brussels as the handmaiden of "ultra-liberal" Anglo-Saxon capitalism, intent on deregulating markets and opening up the French economy to competition. Just... 01 June 2005 in France | Globalisation | Prospect | Published articles | 1 Europe's no basket case “Shock! Horror! Cato Institute declares American capitalism superior to European social democracy.” That was my cynical initial reaction to Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality, a new book published by... 25 November 2004 in Europe | Global Economy | Published articles | The International Economy | 8 Disaster relief It goes without saying that George W. Bush is not loved in Europe. Even before the Iraq war raised animosity toward him to fever pitch, the perceived stupidity, ignorance, and... 10 November 2004 in Bush | Europe | Published articles | The New Republic | 0 Sorry, but we just don't need the global compact Globalisation is not perfect, but it is overwhelmingly a force for good. The rapid growth of trade and investment across national borders is spreading greater prosperity and opening up new... 01 June 2004 in Corporate power | Globalisation | Parliamentary Brief | Published articles | 0 After Cancún: What future for multilateralism? Optimists claim that the debacle in Cancún is just a temporary setback. As old trade hands were quick to point out, world trade summits have an unfortunate habit of failing:... 01 March 2004 in Progressive Politics | Published articles | Trade | 0 Trade at your own risk Markets do not exist in a vacuum; they operate in a social, political, and legal context. That insight - obvious to thinkers such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx, but... 01 March 2004 in Foreign Policy | Published articles | Trade | 0 The coming collapse of free trade Last month, when World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Cancún collapsed in acrimony, the United States responded with a brave face. Though the meeting was seen as the best chance... 03 November 2003 in Published articles | The New Republic | Trade | United States | 0 For richer, for poorer Ann Pettifor and Philippe Legrain discuss whether globalisation can work for smaller countries 13 September 2003 in Debates | Globalisation | Published articles | The Guardian | 0 The world gets poorer when all we trade are insults The Cancún debacle brings us closer to a devastating US-China trade war 03 September 2003 in Published articles | The Times | Trade | 0 Europe's mighty economy The bubble may have burst, but the hubris lives on. Despite Bush administration concerns, expressed at the G-8 summit of leading industrialized countries this week, that economic weakness is spreading... 16 June 2003 in Europe | Published articles | The New Republic | United States | 2 Cultural globalization is not Americanization "Listen man, I smoke, I snort ... I've been begging on the street since I was just a baby. I've cleaned windshields at stoplights. I've polished shoes, I've robbed, I've... 09 May 2003 in Culture | Globalisation | Published articles | The Chronicle Review | 5 The delusion of world capitalism What is the truth about globalisation? Is it a benign force for prosperity or a ruthless engine of injustice? 21 April 2003 in Globalisation | New Statesman | Published articles | 0 Free trade fallacy II Last month, Michael Lind argued that free-trade globalism locks in rich-world advantage and kicks away the ladder. He is wrong. 01 February 2003 in Globalisation | Prospect | Published articles | 0 German success story that scuppers the Europhobes' case Britain was once the "sick man" of Europe. Now, allegedly, Germany is. Its economy lies stagnant. Its dole queues stretch to more than four million people. Deflation looms. Britain beware,... 03 January 2003 in Daily Telegraph | Europe | Published articles | 0 The high cost of resisting the Euro The government must soon decide. It has pledged to deliver its verdict within six months. As judgment day nears, a consensus is forming. Not yet, the Treasury will opine. Naysayers... 10 December 2002 in Europe | Financial Times | Published articles | 0 Business doesn't rule Progressive politics ought to be about hope: that we can create a fairer society where everyone can make the most of their potential. Yet the prevailing mood on the left... 09 October 2002 in Corporate power | Globalisation | Published articles | The Guardian | 0 Listening banks The IMF and the World Bank are lending institutions; they cannot be run by their borrowers. But they can listen more to poor countries. 01 October 2002 in IMF/World Bank | Prospect | Published articles | 0 The trouble with sterling Britain's currency is damaging its trade with Europe and hindering its economic growth. 19 August 2002 in Europe | Financial Times | Published articles | 0 The bubble is dead: Long live the bubble The US economic recovery is unsustainable. Americans cannot live beyond their means forever. 01 July 2002 in Global Economy | Published articles | United States | World Link | 1 Rich hypocrites Oxfam has brilliantly exposed the EU as the worst of trade hypocrites; but it's a pity it still misreads the WTO. 01 June 2002 in Prospect | Published articles | Trade | 0 The not so global economy Free trade is good for poor countries despite what protesters and protectionists claim. But there is less of it than most people think. Most trade is regional, not global, and next month's WTO meeting in Doha is unlikely to change that. 01 November 2001 in Globalisation | Prospect | Published articles | 0 Dump those prejudices The left must learn to love the World Trade Organisation. 12 July 2001 in Globalisation | Published articles | The Guardian | 0 Free trade works in favour of the poorest One of the enduring myths about globalisation is that it is bad for the poor. Yet the facts suggest otherwise. 12 December 2000 in Globalisation | Published articles | The Independent | 0 One world? Don't blame globalisation Europe is finally reforming. Governments are starting to liberalize. European Union leaders have pledged to nurture the new economy. Germany's parliament has approved radical tax reform. France's finance minister is... 08 September 2000 in Europe | Globalisation | Published articles | Wall Street Journal Europe | 0 Against globaphobia An unholy alliance of greens, development lobbyists and old-fashioned protectionists is blasting the World Trade Organisation, often for contradictory reasons. But free trade is good for the rich, and better still for the poor - even when it is complicated by "cultural" issues such as food safety. 01 May 2000 in Prospect | Published articles | Trade | 0 The human face of globalisation Free trade means that a great product from a small country can succeed in global competition. That is how New Zealand’s Mike Moore came to be the new head of the World Trade Organisation. 26 August 1999 in Published articles | The Economist | Trade | 0 Objection Charlene Barshefsky, America’s trade supremo, is a brilliant lawyer. It may be a fatal weakness. 21 January 1999 in Published articles | The Economist | Trade | 0