This paper addresses a key issue in the current debate on economic development: the impact of globalization on poverty. After having discussed the problems related to the definition and measurement of both poverty and globalization, we perform a panel analysis which adds to recent literature by...

The opening of low wage nations to FDI has created much more competition for investment since the beginning of the 1990s. Observers in middle-income developing countries such as Brazil, Malaysia and Mexico, which have benefited from FDI, express fears of losing to new, lower wage destinations....

This paper contributes to the empirical literature by investigating trade globalization and financial globalization as channels of inequality within South-East Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries from 1992 to 2007. In addition, the paper uses KOF (2010) index to...