How globalization backfired

How Globalization Backfired | GZERO World

Antoine van Agtmael knows a thing or two about emerging markets.

In fact, he coined the term for investors two decades ago. That's back when when we believed that globalization would create a global middle class.

"We believed in globalization. We believed that it would make the world better," van Agtmael tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

And it did, in many ways.

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