Wider Perspectives on Global Development

Abstract

"This volume reproduces the first eight [WIDER] Annual Lectures [inaugurated in 1997]"--Page xviii. This volume brings together some of the most influential scholars in development economics to explore how to improve the well-being of the poor, how to design effective structures and institutions for poverty reduction, and what the role of economic, political and social dimensions are (and should be) in global development. Issues addressed include globalization; both its governance and a historical perspective; inequality, of income, and the potential for conflict; trade and labor practices in a transitional and developing world; and the natures and characteristics of institutions and markets. --Publisher. The contribution of the new institutional economics to an understanding of the transition problem / Douglass C. North -- More instruments and broader goals: moving toward the post-Washington consensus / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Is rising income inequality inevitable? A critique of the Transatlantic Consensus / Anthony B. Atkinson -- Globalizaiton and appropriate governance / Jagdish N. Bhagwati -- Horizontal inequalities: a neglected dimension of development / Frances Stewart -- Winners and losers over two centuries of globalization / Jeffrey G. Williamson -- Global labour standards and local freedoms / Kaushik Basu -- Rethinking growth strategies / Dani Rodrik.