Globalisation and Poverty: Channels and Policy Responses

by Bussolo; Maurizio

• ISBN13: 9780415343602
• ISBN10: 0415343607
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The consequences of globalisation for the world's poor are uncertain and fierce rhetoric is dividing its supporters and detractors.The channels of effect of essentially macroeconomic shocks on the microeconomic position of individuals and households in poor countries are many and various. This book addresses three core issues: 1) what are the main channels of effect? 2) what are the lessons to be learned from policy measures to alleviate negative poverty consequences? and 3) do the proposed analytical approaches assist in providing a monitoring capability?This volume assesses the more easily quantifiable effects resulting from price and quantity responses in the goods and labour markets. It includes studies of Colombia, Ghana, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Vietnam. It uses key analytical approaches, most of which are based on numerical simulation methods employing models with different levels of complexity. These models capture the features of an economy, how it functions, and how it might respond to globalisation shocks. The most important collective contribution of the authors is their establishment of directions and magnitudes of effect, based on empirical evidence.

Table of Contents

List of tables	vii
List of figures	x
Notes on contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xiv
Foreword	xv
FRANÇOIS BOURGUIGNON
Introduction	1	(17)
MAURIZIO BUSSOLO AND JEFFERY I. ROUND
1 The impact of structural reforms on poverty: a simple methodology with extensions	18	(36)
NEIL McCULLOCH
2 Linking trade liberalisation and poverty: an illustration from Vietnam in the 1990's	54	(20)
YOKO NIIMI, PUJA VASUDEVA-DUTTA AND L. ALAN WINTERS
3 Globalisation and poverty: implications of South Asian experience for the wider debate	74	(13)
JEFFERY I. ROUND AND JOHN WHALLEY
4 Globalisation in developing countries: the role of transaction costs in explaining economic performance in India	87	(33)
MAURIZIO BUSSOLO AND JOHN WHALLEY
5 Globalisation—poverty interactions in Bangladesh	120	(23)
BAZLUL H. KHONDKER AND MUSTAFA K. MUJERI
6 Poverty and policy in a globalising economy: the case of Ghana	143	(28)
MAURIZIO BUSSOLO AND JEFFERY I. ROUND
7 Trade liberalisation and poverty in Nepal: a computable general equilibrium micro-simulation analysis	171	(24)
JOHN COCKBURN
8 Globalisation and poverty changes in Colombia	195	(33)
MAURIZIO HUSSOLO AND JANN LAY
Index	228