General Article Trade Winds: shaping the future of international business

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This report explores how international business has changed over 150 years and what may come next. It aims to provide practical insight and considerations for the business leaders we work with around the world. In tracing history and then looking forward, we have identified four key factors – or trade winds – that are a constant and significant presence: 

  • The march of industrialisation
  • The plummeting cost of transport and logistics
  • Liberalisation of trade policy
  • The evol...

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