Ghost towns of globalisation haunting central bankers
US Fed officials broadening their policy debates to include people and places left in limbo while others prosper
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New York, Wyoming
AFTER a turbulent year of anti-globalisation backlash, central bankers still argue that open borders and free trade are the key to more jobs, growth and prosperity.
But when they meet for the US Federal Reserve's annual research conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this week, it will be with the growing recognition that the world economic order they helped create could unravel unless the benefits of globalisation can reach those left behind.
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