This article investigates the social impact of globalization as measured by economic liberalization. This study … attempts to answer four questions using cross-section of countries: Does globalization spur human development? Is globalization … related to gender related economic development? Does globalization exacerbate income inequality? Finally, what is the impact …

The Western Balkan countries, which are in the late transition process, fail to take advantage of the opportunities … brought by globalization and the removal of restrictions to the free flow of capital, technology, knowledge, people and … the examination of the impact of globalization on the reached level of competitiveness of the economies of the Western …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …

flows in the period of massive and rapid labor reallocation, i.e. the economic transition from a centrally planned to a …

The study investigates the effect of mining on both poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern European … paper was to determine if the complementarity between mining and infrastructural development reduced poverty and or income … impact of mining on poverty and or income inequality. The existing literature on the subject matter is contradictory, mixed …

Transition to a market economy is accompanied by a period of greater economic uncertainty. Women are likely to suffer … family members-exists, female poverty might be significantly larger than what can be deduced using standard household based … poverty measures. …

Transition to a market economy is accompanied by a period of greater economic uncertainty. Women are likely to suffer … members-exists, female poverty might be significantly larger than what can be deduced using standard household-based poverty …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …