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245 0 _aHuman development in the era of globalization/
_cedited by James K. Boyce
260 _aCheltenham, UK:
_bEdward Elgar,
_c2006.
300 _a392 p.
505 _aPART 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
650 _aPolitical economics
650 _aGlobalization
700 _aBoyce, James K., ed.
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