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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884152
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Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers. We use a balanced panel of 261 districts, based on four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103269
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Frontier Issues on the Global Agenda- Emerging Economy Perspective
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2011
The article is a report of RBI Minister Duvvuri Subbarao on issuesing concerning the G-20 countries and also issues effecting all the countries collectively.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319335
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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What and What Do We Lose?
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2011
Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319343
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Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What Is the Relationship? What Can Be Done?
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization, within and across nations. It … reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality and argues, using a simple theoretical model, that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740429
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Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus
Nissanke, Machiko; Thorbecke, Erik - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization- poverty nexus, focusing on … channels and linkages through which globalization affects the poor. After introducing four different concepts used to measure … trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740431
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A Decomposition of Poverty Tre across Regions: The Role of Variation in the Income and Inequality Elasticities of Poverty
Kalwij, Adriaan; Verschoor, Arjan - eSocialSciences - 2010
The impact of globalization on global and local inequality is hotly debated in the recent literature. This study … considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on poverty through quantifying explicitly the responsiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462829
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Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?
Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focus here is on the smaller countries emerging from civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543096
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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty, and Globalization
Heshmati, Almas - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper introduces two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine … and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalization and show how … globalization has developed over time for different countries. The indices are composed of four components: economic integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752769
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Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
Ravallion, Martin - eSocialSciences - 2010
and micro approaches cast doubt on some widely heard generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752770