The Impact of Globalization on the World’s Poor

Part I. Overview

1. Overview
Machiko Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke

2. Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus
Machiko Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke

Part II. The Globalization Openness-Growth-Inequality Poverty Nexus and Channel

3. The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalization
Almas Heshmati

4. Globalization and Poverty Trends across Regions: The Role of Variation in the Income and Inequality Elasticities of Poverty
Adriaan Kalwij, Arjan Verschoor

5. Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
Martin Ravallion

6. Globalization and Rural Poverty
Pranab Bardhan

7. Globalization, Production and Poverty
Rhys Jenkins

Part III. Other Channels in the Globalization-Poverty Relationship: Technology, Vulnerability, Flow of Information, Institutions

8. The Role of Information in Technology Adoption under Poverty
Jinhua Zhao

9. Trade Openness and Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe
Pierluigi Montalbano, Alessandro Federici, Umberto Triulzi, Carlo Pietrobelli

10. Globalization, Poverty, Inequality and Insecurity: Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness
Carol Graham

11. Explaining Threshold Effects of Globalization on Poverty: An Institutional Perspective
Alice Sindzingre

12. Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What Is the Relationship? What Can Be Done?
Kaushik Basu

Keywords: Economics, Development Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, International Economics, Globalization