Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries : who really gets hurt? /

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Author / Creator:	Rudra, Nita.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 294 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries. Globalization -- Social aspects -- Developing countries. Globalization -- Economic aspects. Globalization -- Social aspects. Social policy. Developing countries -- Social policy. Developing countries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11827523

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ISBN:	9780511438332 0511438338 0511437668 9780511437663 9780511436208 0511436203 9780511435416 051143541X 9780511491870 0511491875 9780521886987 0521886988 9780521715034 0521715032
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Rudra, Nita. Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Table of Contents:

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.

Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries : who really gets hurt? /

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