The Long Term Effects of Globalization on Income Inequality, Population Growth, and Economic Development

Kentor, Jeffrey

doi:10.1525/sp.2001.48.4.435

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“…We attempt to determine if our estimates are biased by listwise deletion by using Arbuckle's (1997) full information maximum likelihood estimation routine to handle incomplete data. This approach has been used by Jorgenson (2003), Paxton (2002), and Kentor (2001). The size and significance of the full information maximum likelihood estimates are remarkably similar to the listwise deletion estimates, providing little evidence that the listwise deletion results are biased.…”

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Debt, Structural Adjustment and Deforestation: A Cross-National Study

Shandra

Shor

Gary

et al. 2008

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Debt, Structural Adjustment and Deforestation: A Cross-National Study

Shandra

Shor

Gary

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“…The GC measures income distribution based on the Lorenz Curve. It represents the difference of a country's actual income distribution from a theoretically equal distribution (Kentor, 2001). A high GC indicates a higher level of income inequality and a low GC indicates a more equitable distribution of income.…”

Section: Disparity Of Income Distributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysing Poverty in Nigeria through Theoretical Lenses

Danaan¹

2018

JSD

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Various indicators suggest that poverty is a major obstacle to Nigeria's socio-economic development. Poverty has persisted and several interventions have failed to yield significant improvement in Nigeria's Human Development Index even in periods of economic growth. Plagued with the challenges of unemployment crises, climate change, conflict, fragility and violence, Nigeria (the most populous country in Africa) stands at a grave risk if poverty is not tackled. This paper explores seven theories of poverty in literature: The Culture of Poverty, Individual Deficiency Theory, Progressive Social Theory, Geographical Disparities Theory, Cyclical Interdependence Theory, Poverty Individualisation and the Theory of Social Exclusion /Cumulative Disadvantage. It reviews these theories by employing a qualitative and descriptive research approach in order to broaden the understanding of the complexities of the phenomenon of poverty from a global worldview and examine how these relate to the nature of poverty in Nigeria. It corroborates the fact that poverty in Nigeria is complex and multidimensional in its conceptualization and measurement, encompassing economic, social, cultural and psychological indicators. The paper therefore attempts to explore the phenomenon of poverty within the Nigerian context by examining these theoretical paradigms. It suggests an understanding of underlying causal factors of poverty in designing pro-poor programmes and a hydra-headed approach to tackle its menace effectively and progressively. It argues that poverty reduction is realizable by empowering people to develop resilience to cope and overcome it within the scope of their resources and capabilities.

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“…Throughout history various approaches have been found to stimulate growth, from mercantilist protectionism of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, to command economy of socialism, to embedded autonomy that drove the growth of the Asian Tigers, among others (Bandelj & Sowers 2010). Moreover, much research in the sociology of development, adopting world-systems and dependency theoretical lenses points to negative consequences of foreign investment (Dixon & Boswell 1996;Kentor 1998Kentor , 2001de Soysa & Oneal 1999;Alderson & Nielsen 2002;Beer & Boswell 2002;Alderson 2004;Mahutga & Bandelj 2008). Further, recent studies on the link between FDI and growth have actually found a negative relationship (Herzer 2012;Curwin & Mahutga 2014).…”

Section: The Interplay Of Neoliberal Globalisation and Postsocialist mentioning

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Signalling Demand for Foreign Investment: Postsocialist Countries in the Global Bilateral Investment Treaties Network

Bandelj

Mahutga

Shorette

2015

Europe-Asia Studies

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A unique dataset on bilateral investment treaties provides a novel source of evidence on the link between neoliberal globalisation and market transition. We argue that postsocialist countries of Europe and Eurasia, more than other developing regions in the world, signed such treaties to signal demand for foreign investment in the spirit of neoliberalism. We calculated the density of the whole BIT network since its inception in 1959 to 2009, and density and centrality of different regional blocks within it, and found strong support for our argument. Yet, even if bilateral investment treaties are designed to promote foreign direct investment, dynamic panel regression models show that signing them does not automatically translate into foreign direct investment inflows for postsocialist European and Eurasian countries in the 1990-2010 period.

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The Long Term Effects of Globalization on Income Inequality, Population Growth, and Economic Development

Cited by 123 publications

References 34 publications

Debt, Structural Adjustment and Deforestation: A Cross-National Study

Debt, Structural Adjustment and Deforestation: A Cross-National Study

Analysing Poverty in Nigeria through Theoretical Lenses

Signalling Demand for Foreign Investment: Postsocialist Countries in the Global Bilateral Investment Treaties Network

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