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The Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor

Transmission Mechanisms

Globalization and poverty epitomize two of the most pressing issues in international development today. While the process of globalization possesses an enormous potential capacity to accelerate economic growth and development, the depth of poverty found in many parts of the developing world is still unacceptably high. Pro-globalization proponents see the globalization process is turning into a destructive tsunami that wrecks the already low standard of living of vulnerable households. Despite the worldwide passionate debate about the impact of globalization on the world's poor, there are very few studies which have systematically examined the various transmission mechanisms through which globalization ultimately affects the poor within different specific contents. This volume contains chapters by leading development economists analysing critically and rigorously how different manifestations of globalization tend to influence poverty in the developing world.

Table of contents
  1. Part I: Overview
    1. Overview
    Machiko Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke
  2. Part I: Overview
    2. Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus
    Machiko Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke
    More Working Paper | Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus
  3. Part II: The Globalization Openness-Growth-Inequality-poverty Nexus and Channel
    3. The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalization
    Almas Heshmati
    More Working Paper | The Relationship Between Income Inequality, Poverty, and Globalization
  4. Part II: The Globalization Openness-Growth-Inequality-poverty Nexus and Channel
    4. Globalization and Poverty Trends across Regions: The Role of Variation in the Income and Inequality Elasticities of Poverty
    Adriaan Kalwij, Arjan Verschoor
    More Working Paper | A Decomposition of Poverty Trends Across Regions
  5. Part II: The Globalization Openness-Growth-Inequality-poverty Nexus and Channel
    5. Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
    Martin Ravallion
    More Working Paper | Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
    More Blog | Extreme poverty - the poorest are being left behind
  6. Part II: The Globalization Openness-Growth-Inequality-poverty Nexus and Channel
    6. Globalization and Rural Poverty
    Pranab K. Bardhan
    More Working Paper | Globalization and Rural Poverty
  7. Part II: The Globalization Openness-Growth-Inequality-poverty Nexus and Channel
    7. Globalization, Production, and Poverty
    Rhys Jenkins
    More Working Paper | Globalization, Production and Poverty
  8. Part III: Other Channels in the Globalization-Poverty Relationship: Technology, Vulnerability, Flow of Information, Institutions
    8. The Role of Information in Technology Adoption under Poverty
    Jinhua Zhao
    More Working Paper | The Role of Information in Technology Adoption under Poverty
  9. Part III: Other Channels in the Globalization-Poverty Relationship: Technology, Vulnerability, Flow of Information, Institutions
    9. Trade Openness and Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe
    Pierluigi Montalbano, Alessandro Federici, Umberto Triulzi, Carlo Pietrobelli
    More Working Paper | Trade Openness and Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe
  10. Part III: Other Channels in the Globalization-Poverty Relationship: Technology, Vulnerability, Flow of Information, Institutions
    10. Globalization, Poverty, Inequality, and Insecurity: Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness
    Carol Graham
    More Working Paper | Globalization, Poverty, Inequality, and Insecurity
  11. Part III: Other Channels in the Globalization-Poverty Relationship: Technology, Vulnerability, Flow of Information, Institutions
    11. Explaining Threshold Effects of Globalization on Poverty: An Institutional Perspective
    Alice Sindzingre
    More Working Paper | Explaining Threshold Effects of Globalization on Poverty
  12. Part III: Other Channels in the Globalization-Poverty Relationship: Technology, Vulnerability, Flow of Information, Institutions
    12. Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What Is the Relationship? What Can Be Done?
    Kaushik Basu
    More Working Paper | Globalization, Poverty and Inequality
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Endorsements

'[This book] is a serious attempt to better understand the major links [of poverty] and to actually document some of the main transmission mechanisms … [and] does a good job in bounding the analysis to factors related to “the opening of trade and capital movements, the international migration of labour, and the transfer of technology and information across borders”. Overall, … it has a good balance of topics and analysis. This book has raised a number of important lessons on transmission mechanisms that … will surely lead to a more concrete meaning of complementary policies and to a more fruitful use of the pro-poor prospect of increased globalization. … One can hope that all the good research in this work will help policymakers effectively eradicate poverty, once and for all (and for good).' - Guido Porto, World Bank, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. XLVI (March 2008): 179–182