03901nam 22008054a 450 991096678690332120200520144314.09786611125721978128112572912811257259780226318004022631800110.7208/9780226318004(CKB)1000000000405697(EBL)408300(OCoLC)648336207(SSID)ssj0000163781(PQKBManifestationID)11162807(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000163781(PQKBWorkID)10118160(PQKB)10091532(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115667(MiAaPQ)EBC408300(DE-B1597)523532(OCoLC)1135591496(DE-B1597)9780226318004(Au-PeEL)EBL408300(CaPaEBR)ebr10210016(CaONFJC)MIL112572(Perlego)1851025(EXLCZ)99100000000040569720060327d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGlobalization and poverty /edited by Ann Harrison1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (674 p.)NBER conference reportDescription based upon print version of record.9780226317946 0226317943 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 IndexOver 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 bothNational Bureau of Economic Research conference report.PovertyGlobalizationEconomic aspectsInternational tradeCapital movementsInternational economic relationsPoverty.GlobalizationEconomic aspects.International trade.Capital movements.International economic relations.339.4/6QM 000SEPArvkHarrison Ann E126018National Bureau of Economic Research.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966786903321Globalization and poverty4360344UNINA