TY - BOOK AU - Boyce, James K., ed. TI - Human development in the era of globalization SN - 1845425936 U1 - 339.6091734 PY - 2006/// CY - Cheltenham, UK PB - Edward Elgar KW - Political economics KW - Globalization N1 - 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 ER -