Globalization and poverty
By: edited by Ann Harrison
Contributors: Harrison, Ann E
Series: NBER conference report; National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 661
ISBN-13: 9780226317946
Subjects: Poverty; Globalization -- Economic aspects; International trade; Capital movements; International economic relations
Description: 'Globalization and Poverty' brings together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalisation on the poor in developing nations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.647-649) and index
Table of contents: title: Globalization and poverty: an introduction / Ann Harrison; title: Why are the critics so convinced that globalization is bad for the poor? Emma Aisbett. Comment by Xavier Sala-i-Martin; title: Stolper-Samuelson is dead: and other crimes of both theory and data / Donald R. Davis and Prachi Mishra; title: Globalization, poverty, and all that: factor endowment versus productivity views / William Easterly. Comment by Aart Kraay; title: Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? some empirical evidence / Barnko Milanovic and Lyn Squire. Comment by Douglas A. Irwin; title: My policies or yours: does OECD support for agriculture increase poverty in developing countries? Margaret McMillan, Alix Peterson Zwane, and Nava Ashraf. Comment by Mitali Das; title: The effects of the Colombian trade liberalization on urban poverty / Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik. Comment by Chang-Tai Hsieh; title: Trade liberalization, poverty, and inequality: evidence from Indian districts / Petia Topalova. Comment by Robin Burgess; title: Trade protection and industry wage structure in Poland / Chor-ching Goh and Beata S. Javorcik. Comment by Irene Brambilla; title: Globalization and complementary policies: poverty impacts in rural Zambia / Jorge F. Balat and Guido G. Porto. Comment by Matthew J. Slaughter; title: Globalization, labor income, and poverty in Mexico / Gordon H. Hanson. Comment by Esther Duflo; title: Financial globalization, growth, and volatility in developing countries / Eswar S. Prasad, Kenneth Rogoff, Shang-Jin Wei, and M. Ayhan Kose. Comment by Susan M. Collins; title: Household responses to the financial crisis in Indonesia: longitudinal evidence on poverty, resources, and well-being / Duncan Thomas and Elizabeth Frankenberg; title: Does food aid harm the poor? household evidence from Ethiopia / James Levinsohn and Margaret McMillan. Comment by Rohini Pande; title: Risk and the evolution of inequality in China in an era of globalization / Ethan Ligon. Comment by Shang-Jin Wei; title: Globalization and the returns to speaking English in South Africa / James Levinsohn. Comment by Raquel Fernandez