Globalization and the Poor in Asia Can Shared

Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization. By examining mechanisms at work in the globalization-poverty nexus through specific case studies reflecting different settings, the book seeks to find ways to rediscover and resume a pattern of shared growth in Asia

MACHIKO NISSANKE is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. She previously worked at Birkbeck College, University College London and the University of Oxford, and was also Research Fellow of Nuffield College and the Overseas Development Institute. She has published numerous books and journal articles in financial and international economics, and has served many international organizations as advisor and co-ordinator of research programmes.

ERIK THORBECKE is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics Emeritus, Graduate School Professor and former Director of the Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University, USA. He has published extensively in the areas of economic and agricultural development, the measurement and analysis of poverty and malnutrition, the Social Accounting Matrix and general equilibrium modelling, and international economics. The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measure has been adopted almost universally by international organizations and researchers doing empirical work on poverty.

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Notes on the Contributors	p. xiv
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
Globalization and Poverty in Asia: Can Shared Growth Be Sustained?	p. 1
Background debate in the globalization-poverty nexus	p. 1
Globalization and poverty in Asia	p. 3
Synopsis of the book	p. 12
Pro-Poor Growth: The Asian Experience	p. 24
Introduction	p. 24
Pro-poor growth classification	p. 26
Additively decomposable poverty measures	p. 29
Poverty equivalent growth rate	p. 30
How to calculate the poverty equivalent growth rate	p. 33
Data sources and concepts used	p. 35
Empirical illustration: the Asian experience	p. 36
Concluding remarks	p. 39
How Does Vietnam's Accession to the World Trade Organization Change the Spatial Incidence of Poverty?	p. 47
Introduction	p. 47
Trade liberalization and poverty in Vietnam	p. 49
Data and measurement	p. 51
Methodology	p. 53
Results	p. 59
Conclusion	p. 70
Trade, Migration and Poverty Reduction in the Globalizing Economy: The Case of the Philippines	p. 90
Introduction	p. 90
The provincial poverty lines	p. 91
Poverty, international trade and emigration	p. 95
The determinants of transfer income from abroad	p. 106
Concluding remarks	p. 109
Threshold Estimation on the Globalization-Poverty Nexus: Evidence from China	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
Threshold effects and non-linearities in the globalization-poverty nexus: a review	p. 116
China's global integration and poverty reduction	p. 118
Threshold estimations on the globalization-poverty nexus	p. 121
Conclusion	p. 128
Economic Development Strategy, Openness and Rural Poverty: A Framework and China's Experiences	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
Literature review	p. 139
Economic development strategy, openness and poverty: a framework	p. 142
Openness and poverty in China after reform	p. 146
Hypothesis testing	p. 155
Concluding remarks	p. 163
Vulnerability to Globalization in India: Relative Rankings of States Using Fuzzy Models	p. 169
Introduction	p. 169
Vulnerability assessment - developing a conceptual framework	p. 171
Methodology	p. 174
Vulnerability estimation: an application to Indian states	p. 179
Results	p. 184
Conclusions	p. 192
Resource-Poor Farmers in South India: On the Margins or Frontiers of Globalization?	p. 196
Introduction	p. 196
Background	p. 198
Trade liberalization and market participation of resource-poor farmers	p. 203
The path from increased market participation to debt trap	p. 206
The debt burden of cotton farmers versus other farmers: empirical evidence	p. 213
Summary and conclusions	p. 215
Credit Constraints as a Barrier to Technology Adoption by the Poor: Lessons from South Indian Small-Scale Fisheries	p. 221
Introduction	p. 221
Globalization and South India's fishing sector	p. 222
The study village	p. 225
Existing literature on technology adoption in low-income countries' primary sectors	p. 227
Individual wealth and technology adoption	p. 230
Conclusions	p. 247
Trade Liberalization, Environment and Poverty: A Developing Country Perspective	p. 250
Introduction	p. 250
Economy and the environment in Pakistan	p. 252
Conceptual framework	p. 260
Data issues and empirical results	p. 264
Do environmental regulations matter to trade?	p. 272
Industrial pollution in Pakistan: implications for poverty	p. 278
Conclusion	p. 280
Index	p. 289
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