Author: John West, Mr Globalization

Asia is the world’s fastest growing region and it accounts for the lion’s share of Australia’s exports.

Asia’s rapidly urbanising and industrialising economies need Australia’s natural resources, and have a strong demand for its education and tourist services. Read more…

Author: John West, MrGlobalization

How does a Cold War organisation like the OECD respond to the end of the Cold War? Does it try to hang on to its former identity? Or does it embrace the new ‘age of globalisation’?

The end of the Cold War in 1989 represented a victory of values and ideology — the triumph of pluralistic democracy, respect for human rights and the market economy — for the OECD and its member countries. Read more…