Globalization and the Poor in Asia: Can Shared Growth Be Sustained?

By Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230201881
• ISBN13: 9780230201880
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"