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The Global Context: Major Forces Shaping Our World
Authors
Isabelle Tsakok
May 21, 2018
Related topics: 
Economy
Sectorial policies and structural transformation

The main message of this paper is that our world is undergoing a profound transformation in multiple aspects. These, at a minimum, include the following:

- the degree and manner of our acceptance of or opposition to increased integration as trading nations

- the constantly evolving technologies we use, the way we work, play and interact as social groups and entire societies

- the very climate that conditions our living environment.

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