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...

Lecture 1. Confronting conventional threats to free trade: the postwar revolution in the theory of commercial policy -- Lecture 2. "Fair trade," income distribution, and social agendas: using trade theory to meet new challenges -- Lecture 3. Getting to free trade: alternative approaches and...

Publisher's description: The riot-torn meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 was only the most dramatic sign of the intensely passionate debate now raging over globalization, which critics blame for everything from child labour to environmental degradation, cultural...