Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What Is the Relationship? What Can Be Done?

By Kaushik Basu. 2006

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Forbes Online of 27 February 20031 offers some information about the world’s ten richest people. Much of the information would cause little surprise. The list shows that big money comes from software innovation, retailing scale economies, the business of oil, investment luck, and inheritance. What is, however, really striking — more so as one ponders the matter — is just how rich these ten people are.2 Together they had, in 2002, a net worth of US$217 billion, ranging from Bill Gates in the lead with US$40.7 billion to John Walton (son of Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart) at the rear with US$16.5 billion.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• "Trade matters in the fight against poverty": narratives, perceptions, and (lack of) evidence in the case of fish trade in Africa. (2010, background): “Nevertheless, for poverty alleviation to occur, or even for economic growth to take place, wealth created from the fisheries sector must “trickle down” through some form of redistribution mechanism (Basu, 2006; Kalwij & Verschoor, 2007; Reddy, 2003; Wade, 2004).”
• Fair Enough? Food Security and the International Trade of Seafood (2015, background): “Moreover, there are growing concerns that economic growth might have adverse effects on income distribution and equity (Basu, 2006; Goldberg and Pavcnik, 2007).”
• The “Bad Labor” Footprint: Quantifying the Social Impacts of Globalization (2014, background): “At the same time, however, the globalization of production chains and the growing cross-country inequalities [27] demand a combination of local, regional and global policies to eradicate extreme poverty and inequality and to provide good work conditions and access to the market for everyone [28,29].”