Understanding Globalization, Employment And Poverty Reduction

Do accelerating trade and foreign direct investment—experimented by most developing countries in the 1990s—imply a positive, negative, or neutral impact in terms of employment, income inequality and poverty alleviation? This book provides some empirically-tested answers to this question using an open-minded, unconventional economic approach and deriving original policy implications.

Do accelerating trade and foreign direct investment--experimented by most developing countries in the 1990s--imply a positive, negative, or neutral impact in terms of employment, income inequality and poverty alleviation? This book provides some empirically-tested answers to this question using an open-minded, unconventional economic approach and deriving original policy implications.

Eddy Lee is Director of the International Policy Group at the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland. He is author of The Asian Financial Crisis: The Challenge for Social Policy.

Marco Vivarelli is Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Piacenza in Italy and Senior Research Economist at the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland. He is author of the book The Economics of Technology and Employment as well as a number of articles which have been published in international journals.