Publication: Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality Since 1980
dc.contributor.author | Dollar, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-21T19:15:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-21T19:15:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and poverty. This paper documents five trends in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. Trend #1: Poor country growth rates have accelerated and are higher than rich country growth rates - for the first time in modern history. The developing world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend #2: The number of poor people in the world has declined significantly - by 375 million people since 1981 -- the first such decline in history. The share of the developing world population living on less than $1 per day was cut in half since 1981. Trend #3: Global inequality (among citizens of the world) has declined - modestly -- reversing a 200-year-old trend toward higher inequality. Trend #4: There is no general trend toward higher inequality within countries. Trend #5: Wage inequality is rising worldwide (which may seem to contradict trend #4, but it does not because wages are a small part of household income in developing countries, which make up the bulk of the world in terms of countries and population). Furthermore, the trends toward faster growth and poverty reduction are strongest in the developing countries in which there has been the most rapid integration with the global economy, supporting the view that integration has been a positive force for improving peoples lives in the developing world. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/06/5149776/globalization-poverty-inequality-1980 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1596/1813-9450-3333 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14128 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, D.C. | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Policy Research Working Paper;No.3333 | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURE | |
dc.subject | AVERAGE INCOME | |
dc.subject | BALANCE OF PAYMENTS | |
dc.subject | CENTRAL PLANNING | |
dc.subject | CLOSED ECONOMIES | |
dc.subject | DEBT | |
dc.subject | DEFICIT SPENDING | |
dc.subject | DEVALUATION | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC GROWTH | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC HISTORY | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC INTEGRATION | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC POLICIES | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC THEORY | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC VALUE | |
dc.subject | ECONOMISTS | |
dc.subject | EFFECTIVE USE | |
dc.subject | EXCHANGE RATE | |
dc.subject | EXPORTS | |
dc.subject | EXTREME POVERTY | |
dc.subject | FREE TRADE | |
dc.subject | GDP | |
dc.subject | GINI COEFFICIENT | |
dc.subject | GNP | |
dc.subject | GROWTH RATE | |
dc.subject | GROWTH THEORY | |
dc.subject | HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |
dc.subject | HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA | |
dc.subject | HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS | |
dc.subject | IMPORTS | |
dc.subject | INCOME DISTRIBUTION | |
dc.subject | INCOME GROUPS | |
dc.subject | INCOME INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | INDUSTRIALIZATION | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY MEASURES | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | |
dc.subject | LABOR FORCE | |
dc.subject | LIBERALIZATION | |
dc.subject | MARKET ECONOMIES | |
dc.subject | MONOPOLIES | |
dc.subject | NATIONAL INCOME | |
dc.subject | OIL | |
dc.subject | PER CAPITA INCOME | |
dc.subject | PLANNED ECONOMY | |
dc.subject | POLICY DECISIONS | |
dc.subject | POOR | |
dc.subject | POPULATION GROWTH | |
dc.subject | POVERTY ANALYSIS | |
dc.subject | POVERTY INCIDENCE | |
dc.subject | POVERTY LINE | |
dc.subject | POVERTY LINES | |
dc.subject | POVERTY MEASURES | |
dc.subject | POVERTY REDUCTION | |
dc.subject | PRODUCERS | |
dc.subject | PROPERTY RIGHTS | |
dc.subject | PROTECTIONISM | |
dc.subject | PURCHASING POWER | |
dc.subject | PURCHASING POWER PARITY | |
dc.subject | QUOTAS | |
dc.subject | REAL INCOME | |
dc.subject | STATISTICAL ANALYSIS | |
dc.subject | TARIFF BARRIERS | |
dc.subject | TRADE POLICIES | |
dc.subject | TRANSITION ECONOMIES | |
dc.subject | WAGE INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | WAGES | |
dc.subject | WORLD ECONOMY | |
dc.subject | WTO | |
dc.title | Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality Since 1980 | en |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.crossref.title | Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980 | |
okr.date.doiregistration | 2025-04-10T09:28:17.902623Z | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/06/5149776/globalization-poverty-inequality-1980 | |
okr.globalpractice | Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management | |
okr.globalpractice | Social Protection and Labor | |
okr.globalpractice | Poverty | |
okr.globalpractice | Governance | |
okr.guid | 107171468779167747 | |
okr.identifier.doi | 10.1596/1813-9450-3333 | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000112742_20040928090739 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 5149776 | |
okr.identifier.report | WPS3333 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/09/28/000112742_20040928090739/Rendered/PDF/wps3333.pdf | en |
okr.relation.associatedurl | https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16430 | |
okr.topic | Social Protections and Labor::Safety Nets and Transfers | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth | |
okr.topic | Economic Theory and Research | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction::Poverty Impact Evaluation | |
okr.topic | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Conditions and Volatility | |
okr.topic | Environmental Economics and Policies | |
okr.topic | Services and Transfers to Poor | |
okr.topic | Governance::Governance Indicators | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction::Inequality | |
okr.unit | Off of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP) | |
okr.volume | 1 of 1 | |
relation.isSeriesOfPublication | 26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87 | |
relation.isSeriesOfPublication.latestForDiscovery | 26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87 |
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