Human Development in the Era of Globalization

Edited by James K. Boyce, Professor of Economics and Program Director for Development, Peacebuilding, and the Environment, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US, the late Stephen Cullenberg, formerly Professor of Economics, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside, US and Robert Pollin, Professor and founding Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, US

• Contents:IntroductionJames K. Boyce, Stephen Cullenberg, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Robert Pollin A Witness of Two Revolutions Keith B. GriffinPART I: PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE DEVELOPMENT1. The Fall in Chinese Poverty: Issues of Measurement, Incidence and CauseCarl Riskin2. The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in ChinaJohn Knight, Li Shi and Lina Song3. Socialist Fetters? Land Tenure and Economic Growth in Post-Mao Rural ChinaMark D. BrennerPART II: AGRICULTURE AND RURAL POVERTY4. A Future for Small Farms? Biodiversity and Sustainable AgricultureJames K. Boyce5. The Impact of Policy Reforms on Rural Poverty in Brazil: Evidence from Three States in the 1990sSteven M. Helfand and Edward S. Levine6. Has Columbia Finally Found an Agrarian Reform that Works?Albert BerryPART III: DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT7. Death and DevelopmentBob Sutcliffe8. On Comparing Functioning Bundles and Capability SetsPrasanta K. Pattanaik9. Environment, Poverty and DevelopmentCharles PerringsPART IV: GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY10. Globalization and the Transition to Egalitarian DevelopmentRobert Pollin11. Gender Equality, Public Finance and GlobalizationDiane Elson12. Class Transition in the Age of Globalization: Examples from the Rural Sectors in India and KenyaAnjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg and Mwangi wa Gîthînji13. What Will Become of the Welfare State?Victor D. LippitPART V: STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING POVERTY AND INEQUALITY14. The Structure and Distribution of Personal Income and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Bangladesh During the 1990sAzizur Rahman Khan and Binayak Sen15. Poverty as Injustice: Refocusing the Policy AgendaRehman Sobhan16. Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific: Alternatives to NeoliberalismTerry McKinleyAppendix: Curriculum Vitae for Professor Keith B. GriffinIndex

'. . . it is this reviewer's opinion that the papers in this volume are of a very high scientific standard. Those professionals and graduate students who want to enter the area of economic development in a serious way will find this volume extremely useful.'