With momentum building on the trade front despite ongoing concerns about globalization, here’s how leaders can earn an A in trade.
Trade expert Gary Hufbauer grades the global trade agenda “incomplete,” but bright prospects for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and progress at the WTO still bode well for trade liberalization.
But today globalization faces strong political headwinds. The very term triggers protest from the political left — it has come to be blamed for the prosperity of the top 1 percent, stagnant wages for everyone else and the excesses of Wall Street.