Equity and Growth in a Globalizing World
ISBN: 9780821381809 | 0821381806
Format: PaperbackPublisher: World Bank
Pub. Date: 8/30/2010
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What has been the evolution of poverty and equity during the recent globalizing decades?
Prepared by the Commission on Growth and Development, this volume brings together and evaluates the state of knowledge on the relationship between poverty, equity, and globalization.
Prepared by the Commission on Growth and Development, this volume brings together and evaluates the state of knowledge on the relationship between poverty, equity, and globalization.
| Preface | p. xi |
| Workshop Participants | p. xv |
| About the Editors and Contributors | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
| Abbreviations | p. xxvii |
| Equity within and between Nations | p. 1 |
| The Millennium Development Goals: An Assessment | p. 17 |
| Globalization, Growth, and Distribution: Framing the Questions | p. 41 |
| Investment Efficiency and the Distribution... MORE | p. 71 |
| Gender Equality, Poverty Reduction, and Growth: A Copernican Quest | p. 103 |
| Inequality of Oppurtunity for Education: Turkey | p. 131 |
| The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries | p. 157 |
| Outlining a Research Agenda on the Links between Globalization and poverty | p. 189 |
| Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants | p. 205 |
| International Migration and Development | p. 229 |
| The Cliff at the Border | p. 263 |
| Index | p. 287 |
| Box | |
| Millennium Development Goals | p. 18 |
| Figures | |
| Change in Poverty (MDG1) between 1990 and 2006, Fragile States (CPIA Definition) | p. 22 |
| Improvements in MDGs between 1990 and 2006, Nonfragile States (CPIA Definition) | p. 23 |
| Heterogeneity across MDGs | p. 25 |
| Correlation of Annual Growth Rates, 1990-2006 | p. 28 |
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