ISBN:
0511438338
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0511437668
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9780511438332
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9780511437663
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 294 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
[Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rudra, Nita Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Globalization Economic aspects
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Globalization Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization
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Globalization ; Economic aspects
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Globalization ; Social aspects
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Social policy
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Internationalisatie
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Sociaal-economische aspecten
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Armoede
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Globalisierung
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Sozialpolitik
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Armut
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Sozialhilfe
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Developing countries Social policy
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Ontwikkelingslanden
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Developing countries
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Entwicklungsländer
Abstract:
The advance of economic globalization 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 conceptualization 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 globalization's race to the bottom
Abstract:
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.
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