Format:
1 online resource (332 pages)
ISBN:
9780821362754
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0821362747
Content:
Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood. The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies main global flows-trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas-and examines how each can contribute to undermine economic development. By considering what helps and what does not, the book presents policy recommendations to make globalization more effective as a vehicle for shared growth and prosperity. It will be of interest to students, researchers and anyone interested in the effects of globalization in today's economy and in international development issues.
Content:
Contents -- FOREWORD by François J. Bourguignon -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- 1 BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT -- 2 GLOBALIZATION AND POVERTY -- 3 TRADE -- 4 FINANCE -- 5 AID -- 6 MIGRATION -- 7 IDEAS -- 8 TOWARD A POLICY AGENDA -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Boxes -- 1.1 John Maynard Keynes on Globalization -- 1.2 International Agreements, Institutions, and Key Players -- 2.1 The Experience of Being Poor -- 2.2 Volatile Widgets in the 1990s -- 2.3 The Idea of Global Public Goods -- 3.1 Export Processing Zones -- 3.2 Textile and Clothing Protection -- 3.3 The Integrated Framework -- 4.1 Financial Crises -- 4.2 Targeting Poor People: Commercial Microfinance -- 4.3 Creating Links -- 4.4 The Nairobi Stock Exchange -- 5.1 Aid in Zaire -- 5.2 Millennium Development Goals -- 6.1 Migrant Dreams Become Nightmares -- 6.2 Musical Doctors -- 6.3 Migrant Labor Institutions of the Philippines -- 7.1 Mercantilism -- Figures -- 1.1 Trade and Extreme Poverty in Historical Perspective -- 2.1 Per Capita Income by World Region -- 2.2 The Growth of World Population -- 2.3 Population Age Distributions -- 2.4 Relative Economic Strength of Developing Countries, Historical and Projected -- 2.5 The Historical Evolution of World Poverty -- 2.6 The Recent Evolution of World Poverty -- 2.7 Regional Incidence of Extreme Poverty -- 2.8 Life Expectancy by World Region -- 2.9 Infant Mortality -- 2.10 Female Youth Literacy Relative to Male Youth Literacy and Infant Mortality -- 2.11 Trade and FDI for Low- and Middle-Income Countries -- 2.12 Sectoral Composition of Developing Country Exports -- 2.13 Nominal Flows of Aid, FDI, Portfolio Investment, and Remittances to Developing Countries -- 2.14 Foreign Remittances Per Capita and as a Percentage of Per Capita GDP, 2003 -- 2.15 Communication Access, 2002.
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Contents; FOREWORD by François J. Bourguignon; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; 1 BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT; Boxes; Figures; 2 GLOBALIZATION AND POVERTY; 3 TRADE; 4 FINANCE; 5 AID; Tables; 6 MIGRATION; 7 IDEAS; 8 TOWARD A POLICY AGENDA; REFERENCES; INDEX
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821362747
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821362747
Language:
English
Author information:
Goldin, Ian 1955-
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