Human development in the era of globalization/ edited by James K. Boyce - Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006. - 392 p.

PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE DEVELOPMENT
1. The Fall in Chinese Poverty: Issues of Measurement, Incidence and Cause/ Carl Riskin
2. The Rural-Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China/ John Knight, Li Shi and Lina Song
3. Socialist Fetters? Land Tenure and Economic Growth in Post-Mao Rural China/ Mark D. Brenner

PART II: AGRICULTURE AND RURAL POVERTY
4. A Future for Small Farms? Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture/ James K. Boyce
5. The Impact of Policy Reforms on Rural Poverty in Brazil: Evidence from Three States in the 1990s/ Steven M. Helfand and Edward S. Levine
6. Has Columbia Finally Found an Agrarian Reform that Works?/ Albert Berry

PART III: DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
7. Death and Development/ Bob Sutcliffe
8. On Comparing Functioning Bundles and Capability Sets/ Prasanta K. Pattanaik
9. Environment, Poverty and Development/ Charles Perrings

PART IV: GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY
10. Globalization and the Transition to Egalitarian Development/ Robert Pollin
11. Gender Equality, Public Finance and Globalization/ Diane Elson
12. Class Transition in the Age of Globalization: Examples from the Rural Sectors in India and Kenya/ Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg and Mwangi wa Githinji
13. What Will Become of the Welfare State?/ Victor D. Lippit

PART V: STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
14. The Structure and Distribution of Personal Income and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Bangladesh During the 1990s/ Azizur Rahman Khan and Binayak Sen
15. Poverty as Injustice: Refocusing the Policy Agenda/ Rehman Sobhan
16. Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific: Alternatives to Neoliberalism/ Terry McKinley

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