Leaders | Globalisation’s losers

The right way to help declining places

Time for fresh thinking about the changing economics of geography

POPULISM’S wave has yet to crest. That is the sobering lesson of recent elections in Germany and Austria, where the success of anti-immigrant, anti-globalisation parties showed that a message of hostility to elites and outsiders resonates as strongly as ever among those fed up with the status quo. It is also the lesson from America, where Donald Trump is doubling down on gestures to his angry base, most recently by adopting a negotiating position on NAFTA that is more likely to wreck than remake the trade agreement (see article).

This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Left behind”

The right way to help declining places

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