The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalizationpoverty nexus, focusing on channels and linkages through which globalization affects the poor. After introducing four different concepts used to measure trends in world income inequality, it examines first...

Globalization seems to have diminished the importance of geographical distance. However, empirical studies find that distance coefficients in gravity equations change little over time. This paper argues that changes in distance coefficients do not carry much information on changes in distance...

This paper revisits the effect of globalization on the output-inflation trade-off, using a new data set of 1114 sacrifice and benefice ratios for a large cross-section of 118 countries over the time period 1966−2007, which is calculated following the approach of Jordan (1997). In line with...

Being in the phase of searching for the best socio-economic recipe, Europe is facing two tendencies: economic revival and global growth differences. Both processes require subsequent management at a local, national and European level in order to reduce the socio-economic risks. Facts,...

The analysis of IMF activity in its more than 60 years of existence highlights a difference between the primarily objectives and actual results of policies pursued. How it was at the very beginning and how is in our days? In the following paper we want to point out this major divergence...

In questo lavoro analizziamo il fenomeno della globalizzazione, cioè la crescente integrazione fra i paesi del globo, ed in particolare ci soffermiamo su due aspetti che la caratterizzano, l’aspetto reale e l’aspetto digitale, cercando di cogliere eventuali complementarietà. La recente...

Because China's transformation process is complex and remains open-ended, there are many partial answers provided to the many questions asked by foreign observers and Chinese people alike about where China is heading. The argument here is that it is wrong to assert China's coming collapse, just...

We explore cultural aspects of globalization and provide a model to illuminate some possible effects of globalization on the politics of redistribution within nations. The argument of the paper is as follows. Globalization is an extension of nationalism (not its antithesis) with regard to some...

Most of the people all over the world claim that globalization is a result of dynamic interactions between economic, technological, social and political factors. The aim of this paper is to document some stylized facts on this phenomenon in order to take

The present situation, in which poor nations are becoming richer and rich nations poorer, gives credence to the idea that the former phenomenon is responsible for the latter. The great fear of many in the West is that trade with India, China, or the former Soviet Union will cause a collapse of...