Tremendous advances have been made by large segments of the world population in this age of globalization. Yet, there is a fear that globalization is exacerbating inequality, and perhaps even worsening the lot of the poor by eroding their incomes, increasing their vulnerability, and adding to their disempowerment. This fear may not be universal, but it does play a role in the public perception that cannot be ignored.
Against this backdrop, this note reviews the empirical evidence on the impac more...
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Abstract: 'Despite an abundance of cross‐section, panel, and event studies, there is strikingly little convincing documentation of direct positive impacts of financial opening on the economic welfare levels or growth rates of developing countries. The econometric difficulties are similar to those that bedevil the literature on trade openness and growth, though if anything, they are more severe in the context of international finance. There is also little systematic evidence that financial open more...
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Regional and Gender Disparities in Agricultural Wages Kindly, click the link below: Abstract: This study on agricultural wages shows that states like West Bengal and Gujarat have performed well in providing gender equal wages to men and women. Kerala’s performance in maintaining gender equal wages has been poor in recent years. West Bengal has performed quite well in between 1980-81 to 1996-97 in terms of growth rate in real wage rates. Kerala, Haryana and Punjab have shown consistently more...
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'Diseases that disproportionately affect the developing world cause immense suffering and ill health. Medical innovation has the potential to deliver new medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics to overcome these diseases, yet few treatments have emerged. Current efforts to resolve the crisis are inadequate: financing for research and development (R&D) is insufficient, uncoordinated, and mostly tied to the system of intellectual property rights. Delivering appropriate medicines and vaccines requires more...
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‘The literature on the relationship between agricultural trade policy reform and poverty, and the results of recent detailed simulation studies applied to economies in the ESCAP region. This paper use the GTAP model to evaluate the possible impacts of the most recently proposed modality for agricultural trade reform under Doha on the economies of the ESCAP region then compare the results to a benchmark of comprehensive agricultural trade reform. The finding is that the current proposal does no more...
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'The Policy Innovation Forum was officially launched by the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA), in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), at the conclusion of a two-day meeting today in Bangkok, entitled High Level Regional Policy Meeting on Networking Towards Gender and Poverty Sensitive Energy Policies.The creation of the Forum is the result of concerns that progress in achieving the Millennium Developm more...
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The World Bank recognizes that child labor is one of the most devastating consequences of persistent poverty and has adopted a clear position to help reduce harmful child labor through its ongoing poverty reduction efforts and new initiatives. It is housed in the Human Development Hub's Social Protection Unit. Since its establishment, the Global Child Labor Program (GCLP) has functioned as the Bank’s focal point for child labor activities, training, capacity building and policy.
The over more...
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