In this conversation, I discuss economic deglobalization with Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan. We delve into the dual disruption of populist and pandemic politics, Badri’s forecasts for full decoupling between China and the Five Eyes countries, the securitization of trade and the necessity of recalibrating neoliberal policy, the trifurcation of the post-pandemic economy, falling economic migration and remittance transfers, the fate of digital nomads and the business travellers, new taxation for the digital economy, the need to fix the WTO, how to persuade policymakers to make data-informed decisions and many more topics.
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Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan is an applied economist and Co-Founder of Infisum, a global economics advisory firm. He is also a Senior Fellow at European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels and a Non-Resident Fellow at Centre for Social and Economic Progress in New Delhi. Badri has conducted research for the Asian Development Bank, Economist Intelligence Unit, the UN Conference on Trade and Development and has consulted the World Bank, UN, European Commission, the Governments of India and USA, WHO, PWC, KPMG as well as many academic institutions. He has written Op-ed and columns have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and others. You can check out Badri’s consultancy at infisum.com. You can also connect with Badri on LinkedIn, follow him on Twitter at the handle @badrinarayanang.
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Our Deglobalizing World with Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan