Globalisation, Poverty and Inequality

This book is based on an exceptional event in December 2000 which brought together civil society from the poor countries and OECD experts.  It emerges that globalisation can have a positive impact in poor countries, but only if policies encouraging a more equitable distribution of human and physical...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kohl, Richard
Corporate Author: OECD Development Centre
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2003
Series:Development Centre Seminars
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book is based on an exceptional event in December 2000 which brought together civil society from the poor countries and OECD experts.  It emerges that globalisation can have a positive impact in poor countries, but only if policies encouraging a more equitable distribution of human and physical resources are adopted.  Furthermore, countries in which infrastructures and skills are underdeveloped will need to continue protecting vulnerable sectors and communities, but will have to accept that such protection can only be transitional
Physical Description:123 p. 16 x 23cm
ISBN:9789264101852