Global Economies and Markets

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Sustainability seeks to disseminate the latest findings in, and implications of, all areas specifically related to global economies and markets. The globalization process, spearheaded by lower tariff and non-tariff barriers as well as advances in transportation and telecommunications, has indeed led to an increased interaction, closer integration, and further interdependence between people, businesses, governments, and countries worldwide. It has created a virtuous circle of competition, employment, foreign investment, and trade that has boosted economic growth and taken millions of people out of poverty. Nonetheless, in the midst of biological, environmental, financial, and geopolitical pandemics, the world economy is today witnessing subsidization, export restrictions, tax breaks, and protectionism among developed countries which are threatening the win–win gains that globalization was known for.

Global economies and markets bring to the forefront a holistic social, legal, economic, political, and technological approach with substantial managerial and policy-making implications regardless of the economic sectors, industries, businesses and countries, regions, or continents in which they are deployed. Extraordinary events and rampant instability have exacerbated crises, risks and uncertainty on the global scale. Approaches to measuring the costs, benefits, and spillovers using quantitative and qualitative models create opportunities for collaboration between academia, businesses, and governments. Topics of interest around global economies and markets include artificial intelligence, circular economy, shadow economy, debt, development, foreign investment, governability, sustainability, trade, and other global economy issues relevant for achieving a sustainable world.  

In this Special Issue, original research articles that focus on challenging and debatable issues in the field are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Poverty;
• Income concentration;
• Corruption;
• Global warming and climate change;
• Clean and green technologies;
• Supply chain bottlenecks;
• Multinational enterprises;
• International finance and trade;
• Sustainable development goals.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Jaime Ortiz
Prof. Dr. Yan Chen
Prof. Dr. Haibo Wang
Guest Editors

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• artificial intelligence
• inequality and poverty
• growth and development
• multinationals
• climate change
• sustainability