Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries : who really gets hurt /
Rudra, Nita,
Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries : who really gets hurt / Globalisation and the race to the bottom in developing countries Globalisation and the race to the bottom in developing countries : Who really gets hurt Nita Rudra. - xix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index.
The race to the bottom in developing countries -- Who really gets hurt? -- LDC welfare states : convergence? What are the implications? -- Globalization and the protective welfare state : case study of India -- Globalization and the productive welfare state : case study of South Korea -- Globalization and the dual welfare state : case study of Brazil -- Introduction -- Appendix A: LDC social spending -- Appendix B: Assessing potential labor power -- Appendix C: Additional tests for the RTB hypothesis -- Appendix D: Variables in the inequality model -- Appendix E: Technical notes on Gini coefficients -- Appendix F: LDC Gini coefficient statistics -- Appendix G: Robustness check -- Appendix H: Conditional impact of trade on inequality -- Appendix I: Descriptions and sources of variables -- Appendix J: Cluster results minus outcome variables -- Appendix K: Dendogram for cluster analysis -- Appendix L: Poverty tables -- Appendix M: Social expenditures on social security, health, and education in India (percent of GDP) based on national data.
"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.
0521886988 9780521886987 0521715032 9780521715034
2008019384
Globalization--Economic aspects--Developing countries
Globalization--Social aspects--Developing countries
Developing countries--Social policy
HC59.7 / .R763 2008
303.482
Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries : who really gets hurt / Globalisation and the race to the bottom in developing countries Globalisation and the race to the bottom in developing countries : Who really gets hurt Nita Rudra. - xix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index.
The race to the bottom in developing countries -- Who really gets hurt? -- LDC welfare states : convergence? What are the implications? -- Globalization and the protective welfare state : case study of India -- Globalization and the productive welfare state : case study of South Korea -- Globalization and the dual welfare state : case study of Brazil -- Introduction -- Appendix A: LDC social spending -- Appendix B: Assessing potential labor power -- Appendix C: Additional tests for the RTB hypothesis -- Appendix D: Variables in the inequality model -- Appendix E: Technical notes on Gini coefficients -- Appendix F: LDC Gini coefficient statistics -- Appendix G: Robustness check -- Appendix H: Conditional impact of trade on inequality -- Appendix I: Descriptions and sources of variables -- Appendix J: Cluster results minus outcome variables -- Appendix K: Dendogram for cluster analysis -- Appendix L: Poverty tables -- Appendix M: Social expenditures on social security, health, and education in India (percent of GDP) based on national data.
"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.
0521886988 9780521886987 0521715032 9780521715034
2008019384
Globalization--Economic aspects--Developing countries
Globalization--Social aspects--Developing countries
Developing countries--Social policy
HC59.7 / .R763 2008
303.482