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The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards …
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Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments in education as a prerequisite for more rapid growth is misplaced; that greater openness is far from sufficient to insure economic progress; that income inequality and urban bias...
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Proponents of globalization often conclude that its critics are ignorant or self-motivated. In doing so, they have … missed a valuable opportunity to discover both how best to communicate the benefits of globalization, and how to improve on … the current model of globalization. This paper examines the values, beliefs and facts that lead critics to the view that …
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's decade of globalization in the 1990's. I focus the analysis on men born in states with either high-exposure or low …-exposure to globalization, as measured by the share of foreign direct investment, imports, or export assembly in state GDP …
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financial globalization makes it increasingly hard to measure wealth at the top. I discuss how new data sources (leaks from …
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general results are then used to generate new insights about the consequences of globalization …
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Does globalization widen inequality or increase income risk? In the specific factors continuum model of this paper …, globalization widens inequality, amplifying the positive (negative) premia for export (import- competing) sectors. Globalization …
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In this paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …
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globalization has raised inequality between nations, but that it has had no clear effect on inequality within nations. This paper … argues that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple … correlations suggest. Globalization probably mitigated rising inequality between participating nations. The nations that gained the …
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This paper reviews the theoretical functions, history, and policy problems raised by the international capital market. The goal is to offer a perspective on both the considerable advantages the market offers and on the genuine hazards it poses, as well as on the avenues through which it...
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