Globalization and the poor in Asia : can shared growth be sustained?

Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization. By examining mechanisms at work in the globalization-poverty nexus through specific case studies reflecting different settings, the book seeks to find ways to rediscover and resume a pattern of shared growth in Asia.

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RIMJHIM M. AGGARWAL Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA JONNA P. ESTUDILLO Faculty Fellow, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) and Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan TOMOKI FUJII Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Singapore XAVIER GINÉ Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank NANAK KAKWANI Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney, Australia STEFAN KLONNER Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Cornell University, USA K.S. KAVI KUMAR Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India ZHICHENG LIANG CERDI, University of Auvergne, France JUSTIN YIFU LIN Professor and founding Director, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, China PEILIN LIU Associate Research Fellow, Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy, Development Research Center of the State Council, China MAHVASH SAEED QURESHI Overseas Development Institute, UK DAVID ROLAND-HOLST Adjunct Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA YASUYUKI SAWADA Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan HYUN H. SON Economist, Asian Development Bank BRINDA VISWANATHAN Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India.

Machiko Nissanke and Erik ThorbeckeNanak Kakwani and Hyun H. SonTomoki Fujii and David Roland-HolstYasuyuki Sawada and Jonna P. EstudilloZhicheng LiangJustin Yifu Lin and Peilin LiuK. S. Kavi Kumar and Brinda ViswanathanRimjhim M. AggarwalXavier Gine and Stefan KlonnerMahvash Saeed Qureshi

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Notes on the Contributors	p. xiv
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
1 Globalization and Poverty in Asia: Can Shared Growth Be Sustained?	p. 1
Background debate in the globalization-poverty nexus	p. 1
Globalization and poverty in Asia	p. 3
Synopsis of the book	p. 12
2 Pro-Poor Growth: The Asian Experience	p. 24
Introduction	p. 24
Pro-poor growth classification	p. 26
Additively decomposable poverty measures	p. 29
Poverty equivalent growth rate	p. 30
How to calculate the poverty equivalent growth rate	p. 33
Data sources and concepts used	p. 35
Empirical illustration: the Asian experience	p. 36
Concluding remarks	p. 39
3 How Does Vietnam's Accession to the World Trade Organization Change the Spatial Incidence of Poverty?	p. 47
Introduction	p. 47
Trade liberalization and poverty in Vietnam	p. 49
Data and measurement	p. 51
Methodology	p. 53
Results	p. 59
Conclusion	p. 70
4 Trade, Migration and Poverty Reduction in the Globalizing Economy: The Case of the Philippines	p. 90
Introduction	p. 90
The provincial poverty lines	p. 91
Poverty, international trade and emigration	p. 95
The determinants of transfer income from abroad	p. 106
Concluding remarks	p. 109
5 Threshold Estimation on the Globalization-Poverty Nexus: Evidence from China	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
Threshold effects and non-linearities in the globalization-poverty nexus: a review	p. 116
China's global integration and poverty reduction	p. 118
Threshold estimations on the globalization-poverty nexus	p. 121
Conclusion	p. 128
6 Economic Development Strategy, Openness and Rural Poverty: A Framework and China's Experiences	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
Literature review	p. 139
Economic development strategy, openness and poverty: a framework	p. 142
Openness and poverty in China after reform	p. 146
Hypothesis testing	p. 155
Concluding remarks	p. 163
7 Vulnerability to Globalization in India: Relative Rankings of States Using Fuzzy Models	p. 169
Introduction	p. 169
Vulnerability assessment - developing a conceptual framework	p. 171
Methodology	p. 174
Vulnerability estimation: an application to Indian states	p. 179
Results	p. 184
Conclusions	p. 192
8 Resource-Poor Farmers in South India: On the Margins or Frontiers of Globalization?	p. 196
Introduction	p. 196
Background	p. 198
Trade liberalization and market participation of resource-poor farmers	p. 203
The path from increased market participation to debt trap	p. 206
The debt burden of cotton farmers versus other farmers: empirical evidence	p. 213
Summary and conclusions	p. 215
9 Credit Constraints as a Barrier to Technology Adoption by the Poor: Lessons from South Indian Small-Scale Fisheries	p. 221
Introduction	p. 221
Globalization and South India's fishing sector	p. 222
The study village	p. 225
Existing literature on technology adoption in low-income countries' primary sectors	p. 227
Individual wealth and technology adoption	p. 230
Conclusions	p. 247
10 Trade Liberalization, Environment and Poverty: A Developing Country Perspective	p. 250
Introduction	p. 250
Economy and the environment in Pakistan	p. 252
Conceptual framework	p. 260
Data issues and empirical results	p. 264
Do environmental regulations matter to trade?	p. 272
Industrial pollution in Pakistan: implications for poverty	p. 278
Conclusion	p. 280
Index	p. 289

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