Globalization and Poverty /

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 glob...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aisbett, Emma (Contribuidor), Ashraf, Nava (Contribuidor), Balat, Jorge F. (Contribuidor), Davis, Donald R. (Contribuidor), Easterly, William (Contribuidor), Frankenberg, Elizabeth (Contribuidor), Goh, Chor-ching (Contribuidor), Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou (Contribuidor), Hanson, Gordon H. (Contribuidor), Harrison, Ann (Contribuidor, Editor ), Javorcik, Beata S. (Contribuidor), Kose, Ayhan (Contribuidor), Levinsohn, James (Contribuidor), Ligon, Ethan (Contribuidor), McMillan, Margaret (Contribuidor), Milanovic, Branko (Contribuidor), Mishra, Prachi (Contribuidor), Pavcnik, Nina (Contribuidor), Peterson Zwane, Alix (Contribuidor), Porto, Guido G. (Contribuidor), Prasad, Eswar S. (Contribuidor), Rogoff, Kenneth (Contribuidor), Squire, Lyn (Contribuidor), Thomas, Duncan (Contribuidor), Topalova, Petia (Contribuidor), Wei, Shang-Jin (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Temas:
Capital movements.
Globalization > Economic aspects.
International economic relations.
International trade.
Poverty.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
food aid, currency crisis, poverty, financial integration, import tariffs, globalization, international, trade, economy, economics, nonfiction, endowment, productivity, wage inequality, liberalization, oecd, agriculture, urban, columbia, india, poland, industry, zambia, africa, english language, business, risk, china, ethiopia, indonesia, growth, volatility, labor, mexico, income.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Globalization and Poverty
  • I Global (Cross-Country) Analyses
  • 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
  • II Country Case Studies of Trade Reform and Poverty
  • 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
  • III Capital Flows and Poverty Outcomes
  • 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?
  • IV Other Outcomes Associated with Globalization (Risk, Returns to Speaking English)
  • 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

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