IT’S A clumsy word that might better have been left in the dry pages of a World Bank report. Even worse, it can mean totally different things. But we’re stuck with “globalisation”. It does not begin to do justice to the richness and complexity of the changes that are happening as the world grows more interdependent and more connected, but around this one word has developed the first great debate of the 21st century. It is a debate that keeps world leaders locked up in their luxury conference suites with the windows closed, afraid that the breeze will bring them the roars of protesters and the…
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