In her most recent book, Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World, Dambisa Moyo tackles one of the most important and least discussed stories of the 21st century: the impending commodity crisis. During her UP presentation, Dambisa will discuss the implications of water, arable land, and fossil fuels running out across global markets; and particularly, what it means to the U.S.
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Dambisa Moyo
Dambisa Moyo is an international economist and New York Times best-selling author whose books take on challenging, economic issues. In her most recent book, Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for the World, Dambisa tackles one of the most important and least discussed stories of the 21st century: the impending commodity crisis. During her UP presentation, Dambisa will discuss the implications of water, arable land, and fossil fuels running out across global markets; and particularly, what it means to the U.S. Dambisa was named by Time Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World”, and was named to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum. Moyo is a regular contributor to publications such as The New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, and Wall Street Journal, and has appeared as a guest contributor on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC, and Fox Business News.
Economist Dambisa Moyo discusses how emerging markets are watching the competition between the opposing economic might and political ethos of the United States and China.
Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation technologies and services, mass migration and the movement of peoples, a level of economic activity that has outgrown national markets through industrial combinations and commercial groupings that cross national frontiers, and international agreements that reduce the cost of doing business in foreign countries. Globalization offers huge potential profits to companies and nations but has been complicated by widely differing expectations, standards of living, cultures and values, and legal systems as well as unexpected global cause-and-effect linkages. See alsofree trade.