Globalization and Poverty

✍ Scribed by Ann Harrison

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 674
• Series: NBER conference report
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Globalization and Poverty: An Introduction......Page 14
I. Global (Cross-Country) Analyses......Page 44
1. Why Are the Critics So Convinced ThatGlobalization Is Bad for the Poor?......Page 46
2. Stolper-Samuelson Is Dead: And Other Crimesof Both Theory and Data......Page 100
3. Globalization, Poverty, and All That:Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views......Page 122
4. Does Tariff Liberalization Increase WageInequality? Some Empirical Evidence......Page 156
5. My Policies or Yours: Does OECD Supportfor Agriculture Increase Poverty inDeveloping Countries?......Page 196
II. Country Case Studies of Trade Reform and Poverty......Page 252
6. The Effects of the Colombian TradeLiberalization on Urban Poverty......Page 254
7. Trade Liberalization, Poverty, and Inequality:Evidence from Indian Districts......Page 304
8. Trade Protection and Industry Wage Structurein Poland......Page 350
9. Globalization and Complementary Policies:Poverty Impacts in Rural Zambia......Page 386
10. Globalization, Labor Income, and Povertyin Mexico......Page 430
III. Capital Flows and Poverty Outcomes......Page 468
11. Financial Globalization, Growth, andVolatility in Developing Countries......Page 470
12. Household Responses to the Financial Crisisin Indonesia: Longitudinal Evidence on Poverty, Resources, and Well-Being......Page 530
13. Does Food Aid Harm the Poor? HouseholdEvidence from Ethiopia......Page 574
IV. Other Outcomes Associated with Globalization......Page 10
14. Risk and the Evolution of Inequality in Chinain an Era of Globalization......Page 612
15. Globalization and the Returns to SpeakingEnglish in South Africa......Page 642
Contributors......Page 660
Author Index......Page 664
Subject Index......Page 670