Working Paper

• Globalization
• International relations
• International trade

Journal Special Issue

Globalization offers new opportunities for accelerating development and poverty reduction, but also poses new challenges for policymakers. And there is much concern about the distribution of benefits; in particular whether the poor gain from...

• Equality and inequality
• Globalization
• Poverty measurement

Journal Special Issue

Globalization offers new opportunities for accelerating development and poverty reduction, but also poses new challenges for policymakers. And there is much concern about the distribution of benefits; in particular whether the poor gain from...

• Equality and inequality
• Globalization
• International trade

Journal Special Issue

This issue analyses the impact of globalization on Africa and present an overview of the six Africa case studies.

• Globalization
• Poverty
• Poverty measurement

Policy Brief

While the economic opportunities offered by globalization can be large, a question is often raised as to whether the actual distribution of gains is fair, in particular, whether the poor benefit less than proportionately from globalization and could...

• Economic growth
• Equality and inequality
• Globalization

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‘Globalization’ implies change, and uncertainty over future change may affect household welfare. We use data on Lorenz curves over the last fifty years for a sample of 53 (mostly developing) countries. Treating each country-quintile-year as an...

• Consumption
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Globalization

Working Paper

The paper focuses on the non-linearity of the transmission of the impact of globalization on poverty and the existence of threshold effects. Institutions constitute a critical factor for the creation of threshold effects in the impact of...

• Globalization
• Institutional economics
• Poverty

Working Paper

An important channel through which globalization affects poverty is introducing new technologies to developing countries. Adoption of new technologies can be hindered by uncertainties about their efficiency. This paper studies the role of information...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Globalization
• Information technology

Working Paper

The impact of globalization on poverty is a matter of keen debate but empirical work in this area has been dominated by cross-country regressions. This paper attempts to link the more macro impacts of globalization, particularly as manifested through...

• Globalization
• Labour market
• Macroeconomics

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This paper introduces two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalization and show how globalization...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Globalization
• Income distribution

Working Paper

The impact of globalization on global and local inequality is hotly debated in the recent literature. This study considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on poverty through quantifying explicitly the responsiveness of poverty to...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Globalization

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This paper uses trade theory to examine the effects of trade liberalization on countries that do not participate in it. These include both countries that fail to participate in multilateral trade negotiations, and also countries that lie outside of...

• Globalization
• International trade
• Macroeconomics

Working Paper

China’s recent accession to the WTO is expected to accelerate its integration into the world economy, which aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper discusses China...

• Econometric models
• Equality and inequality
• Globalization

Working Paper

The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization-poverty nexus, focusing on channels and linkages through which globalization affects the poor. After introducing four different concepts used to measure trends...

• Economic development
• Globalization
• Poverty

Working Paper

The paper considers the political obstacles and supports for additional development finance and a number of possible devices through which advantage may be taken of the supports and the obstacles circumvented. It emphasizes the need for effective...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Globalization

Working Paper

The literature on the economics of happiness in the developed economies finds discrepancies between reported measures of wellbeing and income measures. The ‘Easterlin paradox’, for example, shows that average happiness levels do not increase as...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Globalization