Globalization and the Poor in Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Globalization and Poverty in Asia: Can Shared Growth Be Sustained?

   • Machiko Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke

   Pages 1-23

3. Pro-Poor Growth: The Asian Experience

   • Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son

   Pages 24-46

4. How Does Vietnam’s Accession to the World Trade Organization Change the Spatial Incidence of Poverty?

   • Tomoki Fujii, David Roland-Holst

   Pages 47-89

5. Trade, Migration and Poverty Reduction in the Globalizing Economy: The Case of the Philippines

   • Yasuyuki Sawada, Jonna P. Estudillo

   Pages 90-114

6. Threshold Estimation on the Globalization-Poverty Nexus: Evidence from China

   • Zhicheng Liang

   Pages 115-134

7. Economic Development Strategy, Openness and Rural Poverty: A Framework and China’s Experiences

   • Justin Yifu Lin, Peilin Liu

   Pages 135-168

8. Vulnerability to Globalization in India: Relative Rankings of States Using Fuzzy Models

   • K. S. Kavi Kumar, Brinda Viswanathan

   Pages 169-195

9. Resource-Poor Farmers in South India: On the Margins or Frontiers of Globalization?

   • Rimjhim M. Aggarwal

   Pages 196-220

10. Credit Constraints as a Barrier to Technology Adoption by the Poor: Lessons from South Indian Small-Scale Fisheries

    • Xavier Giné, Stefan Klonner

    Pages 221-249

11. Trade Liberalization, Environment and Poverty: A Developing Country Perspective

    • Mahvash Saeed Qureshi

    Pages 250-287

12. Back Matter

    Pages 289-319

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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.

• Asia
• China
• development
• Economic Development
• Ranking
• Vietnam

• School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK

  Machiko Nissanke

• Program on Comparative Economic Development, Cornell University, USA

  Erik Thorbecke

RIMJHIM 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 GINÉ 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 School of Economics, Chennai, India ZHICHENG LIANG CERDI, University of Auvergne, France JUSTIN YIFU LIN Professor and founding Director, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, China PEILIN LIU Associate Research Fellow, Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy, Development Research Center of the State Council, China MAHVASH SAEED QURESHI Overseas Development Institute, UK DAVID ROLAND-HOLST Adjunct Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA YASUYUKI SAWADA Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan HYUN H. SON Economist, Asian Development Bank BRINDA VISWANATHAN Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India.

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