Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at IMD. He founded the VoxEU.org economic policy portal and served as its editor-in-chief until the end of 2025. He also served as director and then president of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His books include The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization (2016) and The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work (2019).
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The forces of globalization and robotics – ‘globotics’ – are opening a new pathway to prosperity for developing nations. Richard Baldwin shares his vision of how this could look....