The assymetries of globalization

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 11
Contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Editors’ introduction......Page 18
Part I Decommodification: From trade in commodities to trade in services......Page 22
1 Asymmetric globalization: Impact on the Third World......Page 24
2 Positional goods and asymmetric development......Page 45
3 Growth and poverty reduction under globalization: The systematic impact of currency substitution and exchange rate misalignment......Page 65
4 With whom to trade?: An examination of the effects of intra-national and between-country income inequality on bilateral trade......Page 84
Part II Institutional asymmetries......Page 104
5 Communities and markets for rural development under globalization: A perspective from villages in Asia......Page 106
6 Export outsourcing: Cost disadvantage and reputation advantage......Page 125
7 Transition economies and globalization: Food system asymmetries on the path to free markets......Page 143
Part III Agricultural poverty and decommodification......Page 162
8 Genetically modified seeds and decommodification: An analysis based on the Chinese cotton case......Page 164
9 Globalization and small-scale farmers: Customizing “fair-trade coffee”......Page 181
Part IV Conclusions......Page 196
10 What have we learned about globalization?......Page 198
Subject index......Page 216
Author index......Page 222