determine 'on-the-ground' outcomes. Drawing on research from six countries around the developing world, the book also presents … the unique perspectives of researchers at both the world's largest development organization (The World Bank) and the world …'s largest conservation organization (World Wildlife Fund) on the debate over trade liberalization and its effects on poverty and …

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world's population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in … half. How much of that improvement is because of-or in spite of-globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount … loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization's perils and promises, economists have largely remained …