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9780745635545

Globalization, Poverty and Inequality Between a Rock and a Hard Place

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  • ISBN13:

    9780745635545

  • ISBN10:

    0745635547

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-03-12
  • Publisher: Polity

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Summary

Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this global poverty is residual - as globalization deepens, the poor will be lifted out of destitution. The policies of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO echo this belief and push developing countries ever deeper into the global economy.Globalization, Poverty and Inequality provides an alternative viewpoint. It argues that for many - particularly for those living in Latin America, Asia and Central Europe - poverty and globalization are relational. It is the very workings of the global system which condemn many to poverty. In particular the mobility of investment, and the large pool of increasingly skilled workers in China and other parts of Asia, are driving down global wages.This poses challenges for policy makers in firms and countries throughout the world. It also challenges the very sustainability of globalisation itself. Are we about to witness the implosion of globalisation, as occurred between 1913 and 1950?Using a variety of theoretical frameworks and drawing on a vast amount of original research, this book will be an invaluable resource for all students of globalization and its effects.

Author Biography

Raphael Kaplinsky is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vi
List of Tables
x
A Guide to the Reader xii
Acknowledgements xiv
Part I Setting the Scene
1(52)
Global Dynamics
3(23)
Globalization and Poverty
26(27)
Part II Gaining from Globalization
53(108)
Getting it Right: Generating and Appropriating Rents
55(31)
Managing Innovation and Connecting to Final Markets
86(36)
The Global Dispersion of Production -- Three Key Sectors
122(39)
Part III Losing from Globalization
161(97)
How Does it All Add Up? Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
163(33)
Does it All Add Up?
196(36)
So What?
232(26)
Notes 258(7)
References 265(11)
Index 276

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