Consumption, Globalization and Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Jeffrey James

      Pages 1-7

3. Consumption Theory and the Welfare Effects of Globalization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Globalization, Preference Change and Consumer Welfare in Developing Countries

      • Jeffrey James

      Pages 11-27

   3. Globalization, Conspicuous Consumption and the International Demonstration Effect Reconsidered

      • Jeffrey James

      Pages 28-60

   4. From Global Products to Individual Functionings: Medicinal Drugs in Developing Countries

      • Jeffrey James

      Pages 61-84

   5. Do Consumers in Developing Countries Gain or Lose from Globalization?

      • Jeffrey James

      Pages 85-102

4. Countervailing Influences over Patterns of Global Consumption

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Can Appropriate Products Capture Mass Markets in a Globalizing World? a Case Study from India

      • Jeffrey James

      Pages 105-121

   3. Cultural Advantage Reversal: the Case of Telenovelas in Brazil

      • Jeffrey James

      Pages 122-130

   4. Globalization and the Potential for Social Marketing in Developing Countries

      • Jeffrey James

      Pages 131-139

5. Back Matter

   Pages 141-142

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This volume is concerned with the complexities of the relationship between globalization and different groups of consumers in developing countries. Globalization, it is argued, can yield frustration and disappointment as well as welfare gains for consumers; it may, but does not necessarily, displace local products and via the rapid recent expansion of the mass media, it offers policy-makers new opportunities to deal with acute social problems.

• Developing Countries
• development
• globalization
• mass media
• Nation
• social problems

• Tilburg University, The Netherlands

  Jeffrey James

JEFFREY JAMES is Professor of Development Economics at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. He was previously Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University, USA; Staff Member in the Technology and Employment Branch, ILO, Geneva; and Research Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. His many books in this area include Economics of New Technology in Developing Countries (with Francis Stewart); Technology, Institutions and Government Policies (with S.Watanabe); The State, Technology and Industrialization in Africa: The Transition to Egalitarian Development (with Keith Griffin); and Technological Systems and Development (with Haider A.Khan).

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