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Cynthia Kenyon is Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Director of Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging at the University of California, San Francisco.
From 1990 to 2008, annual growth in world trade was fully 82% faster than world GDP growth. Now, however, reflecting the unusually sharp post-crisis slowdown in global trade growth, this cushion has shrunk dramatically, to just 13% over the 2010-19 period, leaving the world economy more vulnerable to all-too-frequent shocks.
