This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

Globalization and poverty / T.N. Srinivasan -- Globalization and poverty : what is the evidence? / Emma Aisbett, Ann Harisson, and Alix Peterson Zwane -- International trade, labour turnover, and the wage premium : testing the Bhagwati-Dehejia hypothesis for Canada / Eugene Beaulieu, Vivek...

An elite derives its status from its relationship to property, whether physical or human capital. While stable property rights are necessary for everyday business, unstable property rights that result in major institutional changes (such as land reform) may have a positive impact on economic...