The impact of globalization on the world's poor : transmission mechanisms / edited by Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke.

"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 under some circumstances be hurt by it. This...

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Corporate Author: World Institute for Development Economics Research
Other Authors: Nissanke, Machiko (Editor), Thorbecke, Erik, 1929- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan in association with United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2007.
Series:Studies in development economics and policy.
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