Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries : who really gets hurt / Nita Rudra.
"The advance of economic globalisation has led many academics, policy-makers and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public services are risking detrimental effe...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Summary: | "The advance of economic globalisation has led many academics, policy-makers and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public services are risking detrimental effects to the populace. Conventional wisdom suggests that it is the poorer members of these societies who stand to lose the most from these pressures on welfare protections, but this new study argues for a more complex conceptualisation of the subject. Nita Rudra demonstrates how and why domestic institutions in developing nations have historically ignored the social needs of the poor; globalization neither takes away nor advances what never existed in the first place. It has been the lower- and upper-middle classes who have benefited the most from welfare systems and, consequently, it is they who are most vulnerable to globalisation's race to the bottom."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521886988 9780521886987 0521715032 9780521715034 |