Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Looking ahead, using rates with unreliable lags to influence demand is a recipe for volatility, as supply shocks from regionalisation, geopolitics and less supportive demographics continue — unless there...
...Although US-China trade has declined, there is “no broad fracturing of the world economy into rival blocs” and “most [trade] flows contradict predictions of a shift from globalisation to regionalisation”...
...The “regionalisation” of its vast logistics network meant goods could be stored closer to customers, making deliveries quicker and cutting their cost, Olsavsky said....
...This regionalisation trend appears to be reflected in the latest global trade tracker from the UK in a Changing Europe, which finds that trade in the third quarter of last year with the EU amounted to 53.3...
...“Regionalisation is working,” he said, adding that shorter routes and faster delivery times had also lifted demand....
...It is plausible that more intense regionalisation is less efficient than “full” globalisation — but it is also plausible that it need not be....
...Regionalisation of the global economy gained further steam as French president Emmanuel Macron took the opportunity to call for a Buy European Act “like the Americans”, as the EU needs “to reserve [our subsidies...
...The transition from oil and gas to electricity and renewables could further exacerbate the “regionalisation” of commodity trade flows, according to Rechtsteiner....
...Part of it is being a small island nation adrift in a world of regionalisation....
...Maybe we will see more regionalisation, which isn’t bad for our business. Globalisation has matured.”...
...But the bottom line is that the diversification, regionalisation and localisation of global supply chains has only just begun, and will probably broaden and deepen in the coming years....
...As Shannon O’Neil of the Council on Foreign Relations argues in her book, The Globalization Myth, in most places in the world globalisation translates to regionalisation....
...Regionalisation of supply chains, not unfettered globalisation, is the future....
...All point to the conclusion that regionalisation, not globalisation, is the future....
...Onshoring, renationalisation and regionalisation had become the latest trends for companies, slowing the pace of globalisation, he added: “[Globalisation faces] friction from nationalism, protectionism,...
...As Swamp Notes readers will know, I’ve always argued for a certain amount of regionalisation and localisation of economies as a way to create more resiliency and rebalance the global economy with the politics...
...Similarly, the regionalisation of world trade would be expensive....
...Greater regionalisation will be the future. Rising wages in Asia, higher energy prices and environmental and social standards make long supply chains costlier....
...In response to ‘The avoidable war’: “I tend to agree with Kevin Rudd and Rana Foroohar that ‘regionalisation is the future’ — but with some qualifications....
...Today’s fractious politics are leading to more regionalisation in the most strategic sectors, such as semiconductors, electric vehicles, agriculture and rare-earth minerals....
...However, the coming postmodern market era is likely to be characterised by faster inflation, higher bond yields — both nominal and real — greater regionalisation rather than globalisation, pricier labour...
...Charted waters There has been a lot of chatter since the pandemic began predicting the regionalisation of goods trade....
...It’s also worth pointing out that some of the regionalisation of trade that is occurring, particularly in areas such as semiconductor foundry creation, could be a decade-long process....
International Edition