Wider Perspectives on Global Development (Studies in Development Ec and Policy)

✍ Scribed by UNU WIDER

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• 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 labor practices in a transitional and developing world; and the natures and characteristics of institutions and markets.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Box......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Notes on the Contributors......Page 14
Introduction: Wider Perspectives on Global Development......Page 17
1 The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics to an Understanding of the Transition Problem......Page 22
2 More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving toward the Post-Washington Consensus......Page 37
3 Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable? A Critique of the Transatlantic Consensus......Page 70
4 Globalization and Appropriate Governance......Page 95
5 Horizontal Inequalities: A Neglected Dimension of Development......Page 122
6 Winners and Losers over Two Centuries of Globalization......Page 157
7 Global Labour Standards and Local Freedoms......Page 196
8 Rethinking Growth Strategies......Page 222
A......Page 246
B......Page 247
C......Page 248
D......Page 251
E......Page 252
F......Page 255
G......Page 256
H......Page 258
I......Page 260
L......Page 263
M......Page 265
N......Page 267
P......Page 268
R......Page 271
S......Page 273
T......Page 275
U......Page 277
V......Page 278
W......Page 279
Z......Page 280