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Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries - Who Really Gets Hurt? (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,438
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Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries - Who Really Gets Hurt? (Hardcover, New): Nita Rudra

Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries - Who Really Gets Hurt? (Hardcover, New)

Nita Rudra

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The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public services are risking detrimental effects to the populace. Conventional wisdom suggests that it is the poorer members of these societies who stand to lose the most from these pressures on welfare protections, but this new study argues for a more complex conceptualization of the subject. Nita Rudra demonstrates how and why domestic institutions in developing nations have historically ignored the social needs of the poor; globalization neither takes away nor advances what never existed in the first place. It has been the lower- and upper-middle classes who have benefited the most from welfare systems and, consequently, it is they who are most vulnerable to globalization's race to the bottom.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2008
First published: September 2008
Authors: Nita Rudra
Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-88698-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy
LSN: 0-521-88698-8
Barcode: 9780521886987

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