Globalization for Development : Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration, and Policy, Revised Edition
Globalization has been taking place for centuries, moving from the colonization of the inhabited parts of the world to the appearance of nations, from conquests to independent countries, from sailboats and caravans to steamboats, truck fleets and c...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/04/11665302/globalization-development-trade-finance-aid-migration-policy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6618 |
| Summary: | Globalization has been taking place for
centuries, moving from the colonization of the inhabited
parts of the world to the appearance of nations, from
conquests to independent countries, from sailboats and
caravans to steamboats, truck fleets and cargo planes, from
trade in a few commodities to global production and
distribution networks and to the present explosion of
international flows of services, capital, and information.
This book also helps to shatter a false dichotomy that holds
that policies that favor the poor cannot be pro-market.
There is an enormous set of pro-poor and pro-market policies
that allow for more equal market competition among and
within countries, and that ask that policy take account of
externalities as much as possible. The sheer size of
today's global economy is a testament to the speed of
change: in 2005, world economic output total US$35 trillion
an amount likely to double by 2030, assuming modest
continued growth. In this book the authors provide a
comprehensive introduction to key aspects of globalization
trade, finance, aid, and migration, and their complex
linkages with poverty and development. This book also helps
to shatter a false dichotomy that holds that policies that
favor the poor cannot be pro-market. There is an enormous
set of pro-poor and pro-market policies that allow for more
equal market competition among and within countries, and
that ask that policy take account of externalities as much
as possible. |
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