Trade and poverty : when the Third World fell behind / Jeffrey G. Williamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williamson, Jeffrey G., 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industries--Developing countries--History.

Industries.

Deindustrialization--Developing countries--History.

Deindustrialization.

Poverty--Developing countries--History.

Poverty.

Developing countries--Commerce--History.

Developing countries.

Developing countries--Economic conditions--Regional disparities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Summary:

This work explores how the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.

Contents:

When the Third World fell behind

The first global century up to 1913

Biggest Third World terms of trade boom ever?

The economics of Third World growth engines and dutch diseases

Measuring third world de-industrialization and Dutch disease

An Asian de-industrialization illustration : an Indian paradox?

A Middle East de-industrialization illustration : Ottoman problems

A Latin American de-industrialization illustration : Mexican exceptionalism

Rising Third World inequality during the trade boom : did it matter?

Export price volatility: another drag on Third World growth?

Tying the knot : the globalization and great divergence connection

Better late than never : industrialization spreads to the poor periphery

Policy response : what did they do? What should they have done?

Morals of the story.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-282-97850-0

9786612978500

0-262-29572-5

OCLC:

707923228

Publisher Number:

9786612978500