This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of … globalization: trade and international capital flows. Past researchers have argued that global economic integration should help the … evidence suggests that the poor are more likely to share in the gains from globalization when there are complementary policies …

for the modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined …

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 …

standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the …

globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …

never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the … of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro …

/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …