Brookings Trade Forum: 2004: Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality

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Susan M. Collins, Carol L. Graham
Brookings Institution Press, 2005 M01 7 - 311 pages

This annual series provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics.

Contents:

GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY

Competing Concepts of Inequality in the Globalization Debate
Martin Ravallion (World Bank)

Channels from Globalization to Inequality: Productivity World versus Factor World
William Easterly (New York University)

Health in an Age of Globalization
Angus Deaton (Princeton University)

BROADER INDICATORS OF WELL-BEING

Assessing the Impact of Globalization on Poverty and Inequality: A New Lens on an Old Puzzle
Carol Graham (Brookings Institution)

Poverty and the Organization of Political Violence: A Review and Some Conjectures
Nicholas Sambanis (Yale University)

IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION

Trade, Inequality, and Poverty: What Do We Know?
Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University) and Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College)

The Impact of Globalization on the Poor
Pranab Bardhan (University of California, Berkeley)

LOOKING FORWARD

Why Global Inequality Matters
Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development)

Some Speculation on Growth and Poverty over the Twenty-First Century
Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University)

 

Selected pages

Contents

Competing Concepts of Inequality in the Globalization Debate
1
Comments and Discussion
24
Discussion
32
Productivity World versus Factor World
39
Comments and Discussion
72
Discussion
77
Health in an Age of Globalization
83
Comments and Discussion
111
Poverty and the Organization of Political Violence
165
Comments and Discussion
212
Discussion
220
What Do We Know?
223
The Impact of Globalization on the Poor
271
Comments and Discussion
285
Why Global Inequality Matters
297
Some Speculation on Growth and Poverty over the TwentyFirst Century
305

Discussion
123
Using a New Lens on an Old Puzzle
131
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About the author (2005)

Susan M. Collins is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and a professor of economics at Georgetown University. Her publications focus on various dimensions of economic policy and performance for developing countries. Carol Graham is a senior fellow in both Foreign Policy Studies and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, where she holds the Charles Robinson Chair in Foreign Policy. Her most recent book is Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Bibliographic information

TitleBrookings Trade Forum: 2004: Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality
Brookings Trade Forum
EditorsSusan M. Collins, Carol L. Graham
PublisherBrookings Institution Press, 2005
ISBN0815797583, 9780815797586
Length311 pages
  
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