Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind

by Jeffrey G. Williamson

Book Overview

How the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.

Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor countries and by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518597
• ISBN13: 9780262518598
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher