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Key Readings
Anti-Liberalism Old and New
This essay, by David Henderson, former OECD Chief Economist,
is concerned with the evolution of economic policies across
the world. Within this large subject area, his chosen theme,
his perspective for viewing and judging events is the
changing fortunes of economic liberalism - that is,
the ever shifting balance within economic policies between
liberalism and interventionism.(103
kb PDF)
Assessing
Globalization
This series of World
Bank Briefing Papers looks at how to define globalization
and then assesses three leading questions about globalization
by looking at the evidence from a large number of countries.
These papers concentrate on the international trade dimension
of globalization; subsequent Briefing Papers will look at
other dimensions and questions about globalization.
Part
1: What
is Globalization? (174 kb PDF)
Part 2: Does
More International Trade Openness Increase World Poverty?
(215 kb PDF)
Part 3: Does
More International Trade Openness Worsen Inequality (161
kb PDF)
Part 4: Is
Globalization Causing A 'Race To The Bottom' In Environmental
Standards (191 kb PDF)?
PREM Economic Policy Group and Development Economics
Group, World Bank Group
Foreign Direct
Investment: Good Cholesterol?
Ricardo Hausmann and Eduardo Fernandez-Arias from IDB challenge
the conventional wisdom that higher share of FDI in total
private capital flows is an indication of better macroeconomic
environment. (98 kb PDF)
Globalization
and Inequality: Are They Linked and How?
Lundberg, M. and B. Milanovic. 2000. World Bank: Washington,
DC.: An article by World Bank economist Branko Milanovic
shedding some empirical and substantive light on the links
between globalization and inequality.
Globalization
and the Challenge for Developing Countries
In this paper, Shahid Yusuf proposes a useful framework
to address the key issues related to globalization. First,
drawing on recent research, the paper shows how developing
countries could enlarge the gains from globalization by
pursuing a multi-pronged approach to embracing globalization.
The paper then shows that the benefits from global integration
are more likely to be realized if countries seek to embrace
the several interrelated elements of globalization together
rather than in a sequenced manner. (102
kb PDF)
Globalization,
Growth and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy
Globalization has helped reduce poverty in a large number
of developing countries but it must be harnessed better
to help the world’s poorest, most marginalized countries
improve the lives of their citizens, according to the report
Globalization, Growth and Poverty: Building an Inclusive
World Economy . This is especially important in the wake
of September 11 and the worldwide economic slowdown, which
is expected to hit poor people particularly hard.
Measuring Global
Integration
A Review of the Literature and Recent Evidence (90
kb PDF)
Poverty
in an Age of Globalization
This note reviews the empirical evidence on the impact of
globalization on poverty, income distribution and vulnerability.
Read
Poverty in an Age
of Globalization (90 kb PDF) October 2000, World
Bank Group
What the Public
Should Know About Globalization and the WTO
Discussion Paper No. 460. Research Seminar in International
Economics, School of Public Policy, The University of Michigan.
July 2000. (129 kb PDF)
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