This program travels the globe as it surveys a large portion of the world's languages-25 percent of which are spoken by a mere 0.1 percent of the Earth's population. Moving from Africa to Oceania and up to Asia and then west to Europe and across the ocean to the Americas, the program assesses how many languages are spoken in each region, the characteristics they share, and misconceptions about them. Historical background on some of the key languages...

In this NewsHour segment on globalization, economics correspondent Paul Solman talks with four graduate students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for their take on the issue. Origina?

This NewsHour segment focuses on the impact of globalization. Author P. J. O'Rourke discusses the role of the teachings of Adam Smith in today's economy. Origina?

Globalization has had varying effects on countries and economies throughout the world. NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to Farooq Kathwari, CEO of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc., on the challenges of running a global organization. Origina?

Like so much of U.S. manufacturing, the shoe industry has moved almost all production and jobs overseas, but one major American company is bucking the trend. New Balance is the last remaining sneaker company manufacturing in the U.S.— but now they say a giant new trade deal called The Trans-Pacific Parnership threatens domestic production. Also, former soldier Daniel Rodriguez pursues his dream of playing Division I college football on this episode...

A seminar with Professor Bruce Scott on national economic policy; Professor Michael Porter, author of The Competitive Advantage of Nations; and Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter on innovation within corporations.

As globalization gains momentum, industrialized and developing countries are, to a greater or lesser extent, becoming increasingly similar, with middle-class luxury and abject poverty coexisting side by side. This program explores the repercussions of globalization as well as a growing resentment toward the G8 countries and nongovernmental organizations. Concerns over third-world debt, environmental degradation, biodiversity, the concentration of...

Milton Hershey built a chocolate empire in the middle of Pennsylvania. It was also a worker's utopia. But modern corporate America has changed everything in Chocolate Town.

"Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Economist Brad DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of how this unprecedented explosion of material wealth occurred, how it transformed the globe, and why it failed to...

For centuries, the impenetrable Karakoram mountains shielded the people of Bagrot from all outside influences, but a new highway linking the remote valley to the rest of Pakistan changed everything when it was opened to the public in 1986. The main town expanded dramatically, its streets humming with tourists and internet cafes that further connected villagers with the rest of the world. But the Karakoram Highway has also irrevocably altered the nature...