Rethinking globalization: Critical issues and policy issues

In this optimistic book Martin Khor, Director of the influential Third World Network, sets out concrete proposals for what Third World governments can do to share globalization to their particular circumstances. RETHINKING GLOBALIZATION: 1)Explains what economic globalization means in trade, finance and investment;2)Shows how globalization is not increasing economic growth in most countries. or reducing inequality and poverty;3)Criticises Western governments for their undemocratic domination of the international policy process;4)Refutes the 'one size fits all' policy prescriptions foisted by the World Bank, IMF and WTO on developing countries;5)Argues that these countries must themselves be allowed to decide when and how to open their economies to the global system. At stake is nothing less that the whole prospect of rapid, just and diversified development in the South, on which prosperity, the environment and an end to mass poverty depend.'A concise, down-to-earth account of various pitfalls in the globalization process. Essential reading for policy makers and negotiators, especially of developing countries.'