Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy

Assesses the impact of globalization; examines the anxieties it has generated about rising inequality, shifting power, and cultural uniformity; and addresses how to make globalization work better for poor countries and poor people. Considers the new wave of globalization and its economic effects; measures to improve the international architecture for integration and to enable locations currently left out of globalization to participate and benefit; what should be done to strengthen domestic institutions and policies; and issues of power, culture, and the environment. Summarizes an agenda for action. Collier is Director, and Dollar is Research Manager, in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. No index.