Globalization and poverty [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ann Harrison

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (674 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.4/6
• Soggetto topico: Poverty; Globalization - Economic aspects; International trade; Capital movements; International economic relations
• Soggetto non controllato: 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
• Classificazione: QM 000
• Altri autori: HarrisonAnn E
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Globalization and poverty
• ISBN: 1-281-12572-5; 9786611125721; 0-226-31800-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784720403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.