Understanding Globalization Employment And Poverty Reduction

Download or read book Understanding Globalization, Employment and Poverty Reduction written by E. Lee and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do accelerating trade and foreign direct investment - experimented by most developing countries in the 1990s - imply a positive, negative, or neutral impact in terms of employment, income inequality and poverty alleviation? This book provides some empirically-tested answers to this question using an open-minded, unconventional economic approach and deriving original policy implications.