The impact of globalization on the world's developing economies is not conclusive: studies show conflicting conclusions to the same problems in the context of globalization in developing countries. It is this analytical inconclusiveness that is at the heart of this collection, which makes a fresh attempt to study the real impact of globalization on many critical problems in less developed countries. Essays focus on the areas of labour, capital inflow, trade, technology transfer and socio-cultural issues. The contributors focus mainly on the conflicts that globalization generates in order to gauge the plight of the poor economies, and makes a contribution in the area of the political economy of globalization.
Author(s): B.N. Ghosh, Halil M. Guven
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 264
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
Introduction: The End of Geography and the Beginning of Conflicts......Page 16
Clashes, conflict and contradictions......Page 17
Labour market distortions and discrimination......Page 20
Capital, technology and finance......Page 24
Part I: Clashes, Conflicts and Contradictory Dynamics......Page 30
1 The Contradictory Dynamics of Globalization......Page 32
The dominant contradictions......Page 33
Specific contradictions of neo-liberal globalization......Page 38
Conclusion......Page 47
2 Globalization, Cultural Conflicts, and Islamic Resurgence......Page 51
Mapping Islamic resurgence......Page 52
Cultural or class conflict?......Page 54
Antecedents......Page 58
Revisiting cultural conflict......Page 61
Conclusion......Page 63
3 Globalization and the Clash of Civilizations......Page 68
Civilization revisited......Page 69
Comparative civilizations......Page 72
Civilizational disharmony: cultural globalization......Page 75
Globalization and the clash of civilization......Page 78
Concluding remarks......Page 80
4 Globalization, Sub-national Governments and Urban Crises in the Developing World......Page 83
Globalization and provision of local public goods......Page 85
Adverse impacts of globalization on sub-national governments......Page 86
Local public goods and urban crises: evidence from India......Page 89
Theoretical underpinning: local public goods and decentralization......Page 92
A simple model: why do the local governments fail?......Page 93
Conclusion......Page 99
Part II: Labour Market Distortions and Inequalities......Page 102
5 Globalization, Labor Markets and Gender: Human Security Challenges from Cross-Border Sourcing in Services......Page 104
Terminology......Page 106
Gender dimensions of CBSS......Page 107
Global gender impacts of CBSS......Page 117
Conclusion: 'Into the unknown'......Page 119
6 How Does Globalization Affect Regional Inequality within a Developing Country? Evidence from China......Page 124
Foreign trade, FDI, and regional inequality in China......Page 126
Model specifications......Page 130
Data and empirical results......Page 133
Conclusion......Page 139
7 Flexicurity, Casualization and Informalization of Global Labour Markets......Page 144
Situating the shift to workfare theoretically......Page 145
Labour market flexibility and the race to the bottom......Page 147
From flexicurity to insecurity in the North......Page 152
Deregulation, casualization and informalization of work in the South......Page 154
Concluding remarks on the need for alternatives......Page 158
8 Race to the Bottom: the Impact of Globalization on Labor Markets – a Review of Empirical and Theoretical Evidence......Page 163
Globalization, FDI and the labor market......Page 164
Empirical evidence......Page 166
Findings and results......Page 169
Policy implications: Is there an escape from RTB?......Page 172
Conclusion......Page 174
Part III: Capital, Technology and Finance......Page 178
9 Globalization and the Agrarian Question: Peasants' Conflicts in Africa and Asia......Page 180
Land tenure based on private ownership of land......Page 181
Land tenure systems not based on private ownership of land......Page 183
10 Globalization, Capital Inflows and Financial Crises......Page 197
Capital inflow, macroeconomic vulnerabilities and crisis......Page 198
Does capital inflow lead to growth?......Page 201
Macro vulnerability and speculative attack......Page 204
Policy responses......Page 209
Concluding observations......Page 211
11 Globalization and Incomplete Technology Transfer to Developing Countries......Page 215
Adverse effects of FDI towards LDCs......Page 216
Unbalanced technology transfer......Page 220
Conflicting interests......Page 224
Country case studies......Page 226
Concluding remarks: A never-ending technology divide......Page 227
Part IV: Trade Liberalization and Unequal Competition......Page 232
The past......Page 234
The present......Page 237
The future......Page 244
13 Globalization, Trade Liberalization and Conflict: A Southern Perspective......Page 248
Theory......Page 249
Empirics......Page 253
History......Page 258
Institutions......Page 260
Conclusion......Page 262
14 Globalization and Agricultural Trade: the Market Access and Food Security Dilemmas of Developing Countries......Page 266
The Agreement on Agriculture......Page 267
Market access......Page 270
Food security and rural livelihoods......Page 273
Concluding remarks......Page 277
D......Page 280
I......Page 281
N......Page 282
U......Page 283
Z......Page 284
