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Globalization and poverty are two of the most pressing contemporary international development issues. Despite the enormous potential of globalization to accelerate economic growth and development, through greater integration into the world economy, the spread and transfer of technology, and the transmission of knowledge, its impact on poverty reduction has been uneven and even marginal in some regions. Both the prevalence and depth of poverty in many parts of the developing world remain unacceptably high. This volume presents thirteen studies selected from the three regional conferences organized under the auspices of UNU-WIDER. They illustrate the differential effects of globalization on growth, inequality, and poverty in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Distinct processes of institutional and socio-political change, as well as significant differences in initial conditions, such as natural resource endowment, the quantity and quality of human capital, institutional framework, and the quality of governance, have had diverse effects on the poor in these regions. Focusing on distinct manifestations of globalization and their affect on poverty, these case studies cover the spectrum from broad macroeconomic regional and country analyses to micro-oriented village studies in each of the three continents. This volume clearly illustrates that the impact of globalization on poverty is extremely context specific, reflecting the heterogeneous and complex nature of the globalization-poverty nexus.

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Author:   Machiko Nissanke (Professor of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) ,  Erik Thorbecke (Graduate School and International Professor of Economics, Cornell University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.904kg
ISBN:  

9780199584758

ISBN 10:   0199584753
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   13 May 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Part I Overview 1: Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke: Comparative Analysis of the Globalization-Poverty Nexus in Asia, Latin America, and Africa 2: David Mayer-Foulkes: Globalization and the Human Development Trap 3: Alok Bhargava: Globalization, Literacy Levels, and Economic Development Part II Asia 4: Terutomo Ozawa: Asia's Labour-Driven Growth, Flying Geese Style: Types of Trade, FDI, and Institutions Matter for the Poor 5: N. R. Bhanumurthy and Arup Mitra: Globalization, Growth, and Poverty in India 6: Yujiro Hayami: Globalization and Rural Poverty: Perspectives from a Social Observatory in the Philippines 7: Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan: Globalization and the Urban Poor in China Part III Latin America 8: Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Phillippe G. Leite, and Matthew Wai-Poi: Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows, and Wage Inequality in Brazil 9: Janice E. Perlman: Globalization and the Urban Poor 10: Alfred J. Field and Erica Field: Globalization, Crop Choice, and Property Rights in Rural Peru, 1994-2004 Part IV Africa 11: Jeffrey I. Round: Globalization, Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Africa: A Macroeconomic Perspective 12: Stefan Dercon: Globalization and Marginalization in Africa: Poverty, Risk, and Vulnerability in Rural Ethiopia 13: David E. Sahn and Stephen D. Younger: Inequality and Poverty in Africa in an Era of Globalization: Looking Beyond Income to Health and Education 14: Servaas van der Berg, Ronelle Burger, and Megan Louw: Post-Apartheid South Africa: Poverty and Distribution Trends in an Era of Globalization

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Machiko Nissanke is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She previously worked at Birkbeck College, University College London and the University of Oxford, and was also Research Fellow of Nuffield College and the Overseas Development Institute. She has published numerous books and journal articles in financial and international economics, and has served many international organizations as advisor and coordinator of research programmes. Erik Thorbecke is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics Emeritus, Graduate School Professor and former Director of the Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University. He has published extensively in the areas of economic and agricultural development, the measurement and analysis of poverty and malnutrition, the Social Accounting Matrix and general equilibrium modelling, and international economics. The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measure has been adopted almost universally by international organizations and researchers doing empirical work on poverty.

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