Welcome to MrGlobalization.com !



We are deeply worried by the course of globalization.  This is why we created this website.

Sure, economic globalization has brought immense prosperity and poverty reduction in the Western world and more recently in Asia.

But today, globalization shows too many worrying signs -- financial crises, yawning gaps between rich and poor, health and environmental damage caused by foreign investment, human rights abuses in export factories, or discrimination against migrants.  The list goes on and includes the ravages inflicted on the global climate, biodiversity or fish stocks.

Then there is the explosion in global economic crime such as: trade in counterfeited goods, drugs and arms; illicit financial flows and human trafficking.

The fundamental problem is governance.  Our governments are not doing a good job. 

We must understand better what is good and what is bad about globalization.  We must pressure our governments and business to create a fair and just globalization.

This is the point of this MrGlobalization website.  It is a vehicle to disseminate information, to express our thoughts and to get reactions. 

Only we, the citizens of the world, can really make a better world.

Happy reading! 

We look forward to hearing from you: whether you are an old friend from the Australian Treasury, OECD, ADBI, Sciences Po, American Graduate School, or Sophia University; or whether you are a new friend who found me on the web.

John West
Editor-in-Chief
MrGlobalization.com

PS  We are becoming increasingly present in the global conversation as others pick up and republish our articles.  For example:

Korea Herald

Bad governance behind Japan's bribery problems

http://www.koreaherald.com/opinion/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20120206000556

Korea and Japan: a tale of two countries

http://www.koreaherald.com/pop/NewsFlashRight.jsp?newsMLId=20120119001085

APEC Study Centre at RMIT

Time for the Asia Pacific region to lead

http://www.apec.org.au/docs/currentsRMIT/2011-1/index.html#3 

East Asia Forum

The OECD and Asia

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2012/01/11/the-oecd-and-asia-a-cold-war-organisation-in-the-age-of-globalisation/

OECD

OECD Social Twitter -- Inequality Just Keeps on Rising

http://twitter.com/OECD_Social

OECD Innovation Strategy -- in the press

http://www.oecd.org/document/13/0,3746,en_41462537_41454856_45356429_1_1_1_1,00.html

ADBI, Asia Pathways Blog

Comment on "Time for the PRC to stop buying US Treasuries and start investing in its people

http://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/2012/01/time-for-the-prc-to-stop-buying-us-treasuries-and-start-investing-in-its-people-2/

Afro-Euro magazine

Globalisation -- why it worries me

http://afroeuro.org/magazine/?p=3985

Human trafficking in Japan

http://afroeuro.org/magazine/?p=3985

Trade, supply chain and corporate responsibility

http://afroeuro.org/magazine/?p=2208

The old world's ageing companies

http://afroeuro.org/magazine/?p=2629

Ensure greater entrepreneurship in the phase of crises

http://afroeuro.org/magazine/?p=1799

How useful are migrants' remittances to economic development

http://afroeuro.org/magazine/?p=1794

Equilibri

China's internal weakness and external strength

http://equilibri.net/nuovo/articolo/chinas-internal-weakness-and-external-strength

Korea and Japan: a tale of two countries

http://equilibri.net/nuovo/articolo/korea-and-japan-tale-two-countries

Bribery and corruption in Asia

http://equilibri.net/nuovo/articolo/bribery-and-corruption-asia

China's elites and development

http://equilibri.net/nuovo/articolo/chinas-elites-and-development

OECD and Asia

http://equilibri.net/nuovo/articolo/oecd-and-asia