Robert Wade is professor of political economy at the London School of Economics. He worked as a World Bank economist in the 1980s. He is the author of Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asia’s Industrialization (Princeton University Press, 1990) and of “Is globalization reducing poverty and inequality?”, in John Ravenhill, ed., Global Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Recent articles

The worldwide consequences of instability in the United States property market reveal the fragile pillars of neo-liberal globalisation, says Robert Wade.

The crisis that led to Paul Wolfowitz's forced resignation from the World Bank raises the longer-term question of the global institution's domination by the United States, says Robert Wade.

What are the real trends of global economic growth, and how widely are the benefits of global trade shared? A close look at the evidence casts doubt on conventional optimism, writes Robert Wade.

The United States rigs the international economic system to its own advantage, argues the distinguished international economist Robert Hunter Wade.

The evidence strongly suggests that global income inequality has risen in the last twenty years. The standards of measuring this change, and the reasons for it, are contested – but the trend is clear. The ‘champagne glass’ effect implies that advocacy of globalisation is not enough: international organisations need to move beyond integration into the world economy as the primary goal of policy.