Publisher and editor: Oesterreichische Nationalbank Communications Division Editor in chief: Christian Gutlederer Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, 1010 Vienna, PO Box 61  In 1989, I was in Warsaw, working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Currents of globalization Globalization accelerated greatly in the 1990s, with the widespread expansion of free trade following launch of the WTO, and with the entry to the global economy of large low-wage countries such as China and India, together with the integration of financial markets supported by the great strides made in information and communication technology.