Globalization and poverty / edited by Ann Harrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, Ann E.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

NBER conference report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

International trade.

Capital movements.

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (674 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world's population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of-or in spite of-globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization's perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Globalization and Poverty

1 Why Are the Critics So Convinced That Globalization Is Bad for the Poor?

2 Stolper-Samuelson Is Dead

3 Globalization, Poverty, and All That

4 Does Tariff Liberalization Increase Wage Inequality?

5 My Policies or Yours

6 The Effects of the Colombian Trade Liberalization on Urban Poverty

7 Trade Liberalization, Poverty, and Inequality

8 Trade Protection and Industry Wage Structure in Poland

9 Globalization and Complementary Policies

10 Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico

11 Financial Globalization, Growth, and Volatility in Developing Countries

12 Household Responses to the Financial Crisis in Indonesia

13 Does Food Aid Harm the Poor?

14 Risk and the Evolution of Inequality in China in an Era of Globalization

15 Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in South Africa

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611125721

9781281125729

1281125725

9780226318004

0226318001

OCLC:

648336207