Industrial Sector Reforms in Globalization Era
Title | Industrial Sector Reforms in Globalization Era PDF eBook |
Author | P. K. Jalan |
Publisher | Sarup & Sons |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | India |
ISBN | 9788176255363 |
The World Bank Research Observer
Title | The World Bank Research Observer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Computer network resources |
ISBN |
Structural Reforms and Economic Performance in Advanced and Developing Countries
Title | Structural Reforms and Economic Performance in Advanced and Developing Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Mr.Jonathan David Ostry |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 2009-10-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1589068181 |
This volume examines the impact on economic performance of structural policies-policies that increase the role of market forces and competition in the economy, while maintaining appropriate regulatory frameworks. The results reflect a new dataset covering reforms of domestic product markets, international trade, the domestic financial sector, and the external capital account, in 91 developed and developing countries. Among the key results of this study, the authors find that real and financial reforms (and, in particular, domestic financial liberalization, trade liberalization, and agricultural liberalization) boost income growth. However, growth effects differ significantly across alternative reform sequencing strategies: a trade-before-capital-account strategy achieves better outcomes than the reverse, or even than a "big bang"; also, liberalizing the domestic financial sector together with the external capital account is growth-enhancing, provided the economy is relatively open to international trade. Finally, relatively liberalized domestic financial sectors enhance the economy's resilience, reducing output costs from adverse terms-of-trade and interest-rate shocks; increased credit availability is one of the key mechanisms.
Globalization and Poverty
Title | Globalization and Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Harrison |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 2007-11-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0226318001 |
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Globalisation and Indian Manufacturing Sector
Title | Globalisation and Indian Manufacturing Sector PDF eBook |
Author | N. G. Pendse |
Publisher | Sarup & Sons |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9788176256407 |
Presents an international perspective and cross-country comparison on manufacturing during the years 1970-2000. Develops a model concerning three sub-sectors: capital goods, consumer goods produced in factories, and in small-scale and cottage industries. Reflects on to the role of the State in overcoming rigidities.
Making Globalization Work
Title | Making Globalization Work PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph E. Stiglitz |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2007-08-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0393330281 |
Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz focuses on policies that truly work and offers fresh, new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate.
Globalization and Public Sector Reform in China
Title | Globalization and Public Sector Reform in China PDF eBook |
Author | Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 131793427X |
This book analyses public sector reform comprehensively in all parts of China’s public sector – government bureaucracy, public service units and state-owned enterprises. It argues that reform of the public sector has become an issue of great concern to the Chinese leaders, who realize that efficient public administration is key to securing the regime’s governing capacity and its future survival. The book shows how thinking about public sector reform has shifted in recent decades from a quantitative emphasis on 'small government', which involved the reduction in size of what was perceived as a bloated bureaucracy, to an emphasis on the quality of governance, which may result in an increase in public sector personnel. The book shows how, although Western ideas about public sector reform have had an impact, Chinese government continues to be best characterized as 'state capitalism', with the large state-owned enterprises continuing to play an important – and increasing – role in the economy and in business. However, state-owned enterprises no longer provide care for large numbers of people from the cradle to the grave – finding an alternative, efficient way of delivering basic welfare and health care is the big challenge facing China’s public sector.