Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries

Rama, Martín

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-2958

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“…Along the same lines, Revenga (1997) studies the impact of trade liberalization on wages and employment in Mexico's manufacturing sector, and Currie and Harrison (1997) conduct a similar study for Morocco. Overall, as indicated in Rama (2003), the job-destruction and job-creation impact of trade is not yet conclusive-one of the gaps in the literature that this study tries to address by estimating the changes in male and female employment in response to potential changes in exports, with a focus on textile and apparel. In this model we use output as a proxy for exports, an assumption that seems reasonable given that, for most countries in the region, apparel firms are export oriented.…”

Section: Labor Demand Analysismentioning

confidence: 94%

Stitches to Riches?: Apparel Employment, Trade, and Economic Development in South Asia

Lopez-Acevedo¹,

Robertson²

2016

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Section: Labor Demand Analysismentioning

confidence: 94%

Stitches to Riches?: Apparel Employment, Trade, and Economic Development in South Asia

Lopez-Acevedo¹,

Robertson²

2016

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“…through sales of privatised companies and regulatory capture. SAPs had little success: on average, the performance of debtor country economies lagged behind those of the DCs without IMF loans (Welch & Oringer, 1998); deregulation and suppression of trade barriers could erode tax bases (Aizenman & Jinjarak, 2009); wages did not converge towards those in developed countries (Rama, 2002); labour's share of national income declined; changes in labour institutions (such as eroded minimum wages and trade union powers) contributed to greater inequality (Cornia, 1999); poverty and unemployment increased (Stiglitz, 2002); trade with developed countries lowered incomes (Meschi & Vivarelli, 2009); local democracy was diminished;…”

Section: Neo-liberal Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalisation, accounting and developing countries

Hopper

Lassou

Soobaroyen

2017

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

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Accounting is an instrument and an object in globalisation but its impact and manifestation is not uniform across Northern developed countries and Southern developing countries (DCs). This paper reviews contributions on globalisation and its influence on accounting in DCs, and identifies important research gaps. It examines the role of accounting in changing development policies, from state capitalism through neo-liberal market-based to good-governance policies. It then considers specific accounting issues, namely the diffusion of International Accounting Standards (now International Financial Reporting Standards) and how they promote global neo-liberalism; the development of the accounting profession in DCs in the face of competition from Northern global accounting firms and professional associations; accounting issues in state-owned organisations, and privatised and multinational corporations; government accounting reforms and the resurrection of the state in DCs; social and environmental accounting issues; and the rise of non-governmental organisations and their accounting and accountability. The discussion and conclusions reflect on achievements to date and important areas requiring further development.

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“…An institutional theory is that trade liberalization leads to greater domestic competition and therefore lower prices and producer rents. If workers share in these rents through some type of rent-sharing mechanism, then wage inequality may be increased if it benefits the low skilled workers in particular (Rama 2003). This explanation may also be relevant for Vietnam where the (still large) state-owned sector faces increasing domestic and international competition after the introduction of the economic liberalization program in 1986.…”

Section: Theory and Previous Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%