POLICY Magazine
REVIEW ARTICLE: Is Globalisation Good or Bad For Poor People?
Helen Hughes AO 1928 - 2013 |
12 December 2002
Imagine There's No Country: Poverty, Inequality and Growth in the Era of Globalization by Surjit Bhalla (Institute for International Economics, 2002.)
Globalization, Living Standards and Inequality: Recent Progress and Continuing Challenges Edited by D. Gruen, T. O'Brien and J. Lawson (Reserve Bank of Australia and Australian Territory, 2002.)
Exaggerating estimates of poverty has become a growth industry. Now the World Bank has been accused of using its monopoloy of data to double the estimated extent of poverty in developing countries.
