Globalization, Employment and Income Distribution in Developing Countries

This book examines the impact of globalization on employment, income distribution and poverty reduction in developing countries using the five country studies of Ghana, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nepal and Vietnam. Market failures, possible displacement of previously sheltered economic activities, disparities in the initial levels of human capital and technological transfer associated with skill biased technological change may imply both an increasing within-country income inequality and an uneven process of job creation and poverty alleviation. This evidence paves the way for targeted economic and social policies both at national and international levels.

EDDY LEE is Economic Adviser at the International Institute of Labour Studies, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland. He was previously Director of International Policies and principal author of key ILO publications such as the World Employment Reports. He has a BPhil and DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and has published widely in the fields of development economics and international economic and social policies.

MARCO VIVARELLI is Professor of Economic Policy at the Catholic University of Piacenza, Italy. He is Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), Bonn, at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, and at the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization (CSGR), University of Warwick, UK.