Globalisation between Gloom and Prosperity

by Arvind Singh

The book attempts to combine the assessments on broad fronts encompassing economy, politics, social cultural milieu and environment by the forces of globalization. It offers answers to the vital questions on wide ranging issues such as growth, poverty, inequality, social change, corporate behavior and environmental exhaustion by a careful analysis of the evidences and an examination of the global economic processes. 1.1. Three waves of Globalisation. ,1.2. Worldwide Household inequality (18201910). ,1.3. Worldwide Household inequality (19101950). ,1.4. Characteristics of more globalised and less globalised developing economies (Population weighted averages) ,1.5. Decline in average import tariff (1980s1990s). ,1.6. Per capita GDP growth rates. , 2.1. Top 15 MNCs. ,2.2. GATT and WTO trade rounds. ,2.3. Key elements of orthodox security and human security. ,2.4. Regional breakdown of free and partly free countries in the developing world (2000). ,2.5. Democracy in SubSaharan Africa (2000). ,2.6. New democracy in South Asia (2000). ,2.7. New democracy in East and South EastAsia. ,2.8. New democracy in Latin America (2000). , 3.1. US International direct investment flows. ,3.2. The largest recipients of inward FDI (19751980) and (19901996). ,3.3. Change in trade as a share of GDP. ,3.4. Developing country exports by sector. ,3.5. Average un weighted tariff rates by region. ,3.6. Change in income inequality after 1979 in OECD countries. ,3.7. Foreign population as percentage of total population ,3.8. Country of origin of immigrants 1995 , 4.1. Female Percentage Share of wage employment in non agricultural sector. , 5.1. The convention on biological diversity. ,5.2. Amount and kinds of soil degradation in different Continents. ,5.3. Soil erosion in different contine

306 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2013