The impact of globalization on the world's poor : transmission mechanisms

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The impact of globalization on the world's poor : transmission mechanisms

edited by Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke

(Studies in development economics and policy series)

Palgrave Macmillan in association with the United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book examines the various channels and transmission mechanisms, such as greater openness to trade and foreign investment, economic growth, effects on income distribution, technology transfer and labour migration through which the process of globalization affects different dimensions of poverty in the developing world.

Table of Contents

  • PART 1: OVERVIEW Overview
  • M.Nissanke & E.Thorbecke Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus
  • M.Nissanke & E.Thorbecke PART 2:THE GLOBALIZATION OPENNESS-GROWTH-INEQUALITY-POVERTY NEXUS AND CHANNEL The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalization
  • A.Heshmati Globalization and Poverty Trends across Regions: The Role of Variation in the Income and Inequality Elasticities of Poverty
  • A.Kalwij & A.Verschoor Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
  • M.Ravallion Globalization and Rural Poverty
  • P.Bardhan Globalization, Production, and Poverty
  • R.Jenkins PART 3: OTHER CHANNELS IN THE GLOBALIZATION-POVERTY RELATIONSHIP: TECHNOLOGY, VULNERABILITY, FLOW OF INFORMATION, INSTITUTIONS The Role of Information in Technology Adoption under Poverty
  • J.Zhao Trade Openness and Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe
  • P.Montalbano, A.Federici, U.Triulzi & C.Pietrobelli Globalization, Poverty, Inequality, and Insecurity: Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness
  • C.Graham Explaining Threshold Effects of Globalization on Poverty: An Institutional Perspective
  • A.Sindzingre Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What is the Relationship? What Can be Done? K.Basu

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