Globalization and the Poor in Asia Can Shared Growth be Sustained [Hardcover]

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 globalizationpoverty 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.Globalization and Poverty in Asia; M.Nissanke &? E.Thorbecke Pro-Poor Growth: The Asian Experience; N.Kakwani &? H.H.Son How Does Vietnam's Accession to the World Trade Organization Change the Spatial Incidence of Poverty; T.Fujii &? D.Roland-Holst Trade, Migration, and Poverty Reduction in the Globalizing Economy: The Case of the Philippines; Y.Sawada &? J.P.Estudillo Threshold Estimation on the Globalization-Poverty Nexus: Evidence from China; Z.Liang Economic Development Strategy, Openness and Rural Poverty: A Framework and China's Experiences; J.Y.Lin &? P.Lin Vulnerability to Globalization in India: Relative Rankings of States using Fuzzy Models; K.S.K.Kumar &? B.Viswanathan Resource-Poor Farmers in South India: On the Margins or Frontiers of Globalization; R.M.Aggarwal Credit Constraints as a Barrier to Technology Adoption by the Poor: Lessons from South Indian Small Scale Fishery; X.Gin? &? S.Klonner Trade Liberalization, Environment and Poverty: A Developing Country Perspective; M.S.QureshiRIMJHIM M. AGGARWAL Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA JONNA P. ESTUDILLO Faculty Fellow, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) and Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan TOMOKI FUJII Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Singapore XAVIER GIN? Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank NANAK KAKWANI Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney, Australia STEFAN KLONNER Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Cornell University, USA K.S. KAVI KUMAR Madras Scl3