Globalisation and Poverty : Channels and Policy Responses

ISBN-13: 9780415343602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str.

M. Bussolo; Jeffrey Round; Maurizio Bussolo

Opis

During the last two decades, bilateral and multilateral donors' policy advice to developing countries has been centred on greater market openness and better integration into the global economy - a process that characterises globalization. This advice is of growing concern to many analysts as it subscribes to the problematic notion that as long as inequality is not increasing, economic progress through growth will reduce poverty.
This book provides a systematic analysis of the impact of globalization on poverty, paying particular attention to empirical evidence to try to establish directions and magnitudes of effect. The book features detailed case studies on Vietnam, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana and Columbia.

Recenzje

"I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in the effects of trade liberalization on poverty.  Indeed, the reader gains not only a better understanding of the subtle mechanisms that underlie the trade/poverty nexus, but also walks away with an improved knowledge of the various methodological tools that are available to exlore this nexus." - Kamal Saggi, Globalizations, March 2008, Vol. 5

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction  1. The Impact of Structural Reforms on Poverty: a Simple Methodology with Extensions  2. Trade Liberalisation and Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam  3. Globalisation and Poverty: Implications of South Asian Experience for the Wider Debate  4. Globalisation in Developing Countries: The Role of Transaction Costs in Explaining Economic Performance in India  5. Globalisation-Poverty Interactions in Bangladesh  6. Poverty and Policy in a Globalising Economy: the Case of Ghana  7. Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal: Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis  8. Globalisation and Poverty Changes in Colombia

O autorze

Bussolo, Maurizio; Round, Jeffery I