The Impact of Globalization on the Poor by Pranab Bardhan

Globalization and Rural Poverty by

In this paper we provide an analytical account of the mechanisms through which globalization, in the sense of increased foreign trade and long-term capital flows, affects the lives of the rural poor in developing countries (in their capacity as workers, consumers, recipients of public services or users of common property resources). Globalization can cause many hardships for the rural poor, but...

Globalization and Poverty: Introduction

Abstract: This introduction surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty, drawing on fifteen papers prepared for an NBER project under my direction. We focus on two measures of globalization: trade integration (measured using tariffs or trade flows), and international capital flows. Many economists have used the Heckscher-Ohlin framework in international trade to argue...

Poverty, Inequality and Reforms Pranab Bardhan I. Reforms Growth Poverty Reduction II. Poverty and Inequality Opposition to Reforms

Does globalization help or hurt the world's poor?

Globalization and the attendant concerns for poverty and inequality have captured public imagination and become a focus of international discussion in recent years in a way few other topics (except for international terrorism or global warming) have. The events around the theme often have their own drama and also a touch of irony. Just to take an example from two reports in the newspaper on the...

Political Competition in Economic Perspective

It is sometimes argued that political competition yields benefits to the citizens just as competition in economic markets yields benefits to consumers. We consider the economic costs and benefits of political competition and find that the story is somewhat more complicated. We first review the limited existing literature on this topic, and in the process, identify a number of distinct interpret...