Wider Perspectives on Global Development

✍ Scribed by Sir Anthony B. Atkinson, Kaushik Basu, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Douglass C. North, Dani Rodrik, Frances Stewart, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jeffrey G. Williamson, UNU-WIDER (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Series: Studies in Development Economics and Policy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together some of the most influential scholars in development economics to explore how to improve the well-being of the poor, how to design effective structures and institutions for poverty reduction and what the role of economic, political and social dimensions are (and should be) in global development. Issues addressed include globalization; both its governance and a historical perspective; inequality, of income, and the potential for conflict; trade and labour practises in a transitional and developing world, and; the natures and characteristics of institutions and markets.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics to an Understanding of the Transition Problem....Pages 1-15
More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving toward the Post-Washington Consensus....Pages 16-48
Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable? A Critique of the Transatlantic Consensus....Pages 49-73
Globalization and Appropriate Governance....Pages 74-100
Horizontal Inequalities: A Neglected Dimension of Development....Pages 101-135
Winners and Losers over Two Centuries of Globalization....Pages 136-174
Global Labour Standards and Local Freedoms....Pages 175-200
Rethinking Growth Strategies....Pages 201-223
Back Matter....Pages 225-259

✦ Subjects

Economic Policy; International Relations; Development Economics; International Economics; Political Economy