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- Publisher:
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Palgrave Macmillan
- Series:
- Studies in Development Economics and Policy
- Title:
- Globalization and the Poor in Asia: Can Shared Growth be Sustained?
- Authors:
- Edited by Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke
- Publication date:
- April 2008
- ISBN Printed:
- 0230201881
- ISBN 13 Print:
- 9780230201880
- Copyright holder:
- © UNU-WIDER
- Copyright year:
- 2008
- Keywords:
- globalization, pro-poor, growth, Asia
- JEL:
- O4, O53
- Project:
-
Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor
- Format:
- hardback book
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- This book questions the conventional simplistic relation between globalisation and poverty – more globalisation more poverty – by testing it against the experience of different countries in Asia. The effort is significant and meaningful because these countries have opened up to global exchange of goods, capital, technology, and human resources, under different cultural, social, political, and economic conditions. The results of the studies, therefore, help to construct a more comprehensive picture of the effects of globalisation on poverty. The studies in this book require us to redefine the very concept of poverty in the context of globalisation; because three very clear and mutually exclusive movements have been observed with respect to poverty: a change in the number of poor as a percentage of total population; a change in the average level of income of the people in the bottom segment of the income scale; and a change in the difference between the average level of income of the people in the bottom segment and the top segment of the income scale. And these three changes have not moved together as a result of globalisation. How do you then measure the impact of globalisation on poverty? That is the question that the book poses and seeks to answer. —Reginald Gomes, Indian National Social Action Forum (INSAF)
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