Globalization Initiative
NDN's Globalization Initiative was established to promote economic growth and restore broad-based prosperity in our globalized economy. Chaired by Dr. Robert Shapiro, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs under President Bill Clinton, the program works to address the structural changes affecting the American and global economies. NDN argues that a "lost decade," marked by declining household incomes, remains the most important factor in the American economy and politics.
Our agenda for addressing the structural changes inherent in the era of globalization includes three key components: modernizing our healthcare and energy policies, investing in 21st century skills and infrastructure, and accelerating innovation across the economy. NDN also continues to play a major role in the debate over how to best manage the Great Recession and fosters dialogue around renewing the national consensus on global economic liberalization.
Papers and Memos
Written over a series of weeks in April 2010, this collection of four pieces lays out a new economic strategy for America that creates broad-based prosperity and addresses the America's great economic challenges in the era of globalization.
Tapping the Resources of America’s Community Colleges: 7/26/07: By Robert J. Shapiro
Young Americans are increasingly adept at working with computers, but many American workers still lack those skills. Here, we propose a direct new approach to giving U.S. workers the opportunity to develop those skills.
We believe that America needs to put a laptop in every backpack of every child. We need to commit to a date and grade certain: we suggest 2010 for every sixth grader.
The American people want the new Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to focus and pursue an aggressive strategy to help them and their families get ahead.
We believe that an agreement with Central America is so important to how Americans approach the 21st century that we must commit ourselves to help negotiate and pass a better CAFTA.
Major Events
Growing the Next Economy 12/7/11
On Wednesday, December 7th, NDN hosted the Director of Multi-State Initiatives in the Office of Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber and Karl Agne, a partner at GBA Strategies, for a lunchtime discussion about bottom up economic growth, accelerating the ideas that work, and creating the Next Economy. Joining us were
A Look at Current Global & Domestic Economic Challenges 7/26/11
On Tuesday, July 26th NDN hosted a morning conversation about the economic challenges facing America and the world featuring views from the United States Senate, House and the British House of Commons.
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco J Sanchez at NDN 4/26/11
On Tuesday, April 26, NDN hosted Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco J Sanchez. Sanchez was joined by NDN Globalization Initiative Chair and former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs Dr. Robert Shapiro.
National Economic Council Deputy Director Jason Furman on Winning the Future 2/22/11
Following the release of the President's budget, Jason Furman, the Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council joined NDN for a discussion of the budget, the economy, and the President's strategy to make America competitive in the global economy of the 21st century.
Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Robert Hormats on Global Economic Challenges 11/15/10
On November 15, NDN hosted Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs Robert Hormats for an important address on global economic challenges.
Blogs
Visit the Globalization Initiative blog for more of our ongoing work.
Visit Globalization Initiative Chair Robert Shapiro's blog.
Visit Globalization Initiative Deputy Policy Director Jake Berliner's blog.
Recent Work
In his latest blog, Rob Shapiro, explores how a deep public cynicism fed by the way two Presidents and two Congresses responded to the economic turmoil of 2008-2009 has left Washington unable to resolve the debt crisis.
In his latest blog, The Real Dangers from the New Austerity, Rob Shapiro, highlights the economically-destructive potential in the current budget austerity pushed by congressional Republicans.
The IMF reports that, by some measures, developing countries will produce a majority of the world's output by 2014. In this week's blog, Rob Shapiro, explains how this development heralds the beginning of Globalization 2.0, which will present new and very difficult challenges to American prosperity.
In this week's blog, Rob Shapiro does the math and explains how merely coming close to a U.S. default could shake the confidence of worldwide investors, pushing up U.S. interest rates and undermining both long-term deficit reduction and the incomes of Americans.
Written over a series of weeks in April 2010, this collection of four pieces lays out a new economic strategy for America that creates broad-based prosperity and addresses the America's great economic challenges in the era of globalization.
Gas prices are headed up again despite the recent slide in oil prices. As Robert Shapiro writes in this week’s blog, the only one way to deal effectively with the political fallout, is to boldly address the country’s underlying economic problems of slow job creation and stalled incomes.
In this week's blog, Rob Shapiro discusses a series of measures to bolster job creation and help raise incomes in ways that also would reduce our long-term deficits.
