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AUGUST 26, 2006

Fed Chairman Expects Globalization To Enhance Living Standards

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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. -- Global economic integration is moving at an unprecedented pace, forging the basis for productivity growth and a reduction in global poverty, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said.

"Economic and technological changes are likely to shrink effective distances still further in coming years, creating the potential for continued improvements in productivity and living standards and for a reduction in global poverty," Mr. Bernanke said in remarks to global monetary officials and private-sector economists gathered at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's annual conference here. (See the full text of Bernanke's prepared remarks.)

The Fed chairman urged ...