Imagine There's No Country: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization download epub

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New results, presented in Imagine there’s no country: Poverty, inequality and Growth in the era of Globalization go a long way in addressing these issues, and find that growth has, indeed, been resoundingly pro-poor during the 1980s and 1990s. The distribution of benefits from growth between countries raises the issue of individuals versus countries. Whether growth – on a regional or global level – has been pro-poor or not depends on whether it has disproportionately (and positively) impacted poor individuals; this matters more than the country of origin of these individuals.

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A new era of globalization, which began in the 1980s, brought about a significant decline in costs of transportation, communication, and production; considerably improved intercountry competitiveness; and broke down trade and cultural barriers among countries. View Sharing Options. Bhalla rubbishes poverty estimates made by the World Bank and the Indian government to come up with dramatic findings that could shake up global development policy. Sandipan Deb, Outlook Magazine. A brilliant new book.

A new era of globalization, which began in the 1980s, brought about a. The concept of a sovereign nation has been increasingly questioned in recent years. Some, indeed, have imagined a world without boundaries, without countries. Has poverty declined at a faster pace during globalization? If yes, why? If not, is it because the growth rate was lower, or because inequality worsened, or both? Who gained from globalization? Was it the elite in both the developed and developing world?

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Imagine There's No Country: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization," Peterson Institute Press: All Books, Peterson Institute for International Economics, number 348, September. Handle: RePEc:iie:ppress:348. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

NOTWITHSTANDING Joe Stiglitz’s tenure as Chief Economist of the World Bank, few would accuse the Bank of aiding and abetting the antiglobaliza-tion movement.

Imagine There's No Country: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization. Imagine There's No Country: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization. On the World Bank's criterion, poverty has dropped decade by decade from 56 percent of the population of developing countries in 1950 to 9 percent in 2000.No Country : Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization.

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