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These findings are robust to the treatment of endogenous globalization measures.
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David Dollar, Aart Kraay 
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The evidence from individual cases and from cross-country analysis supports the view that globalization leads to faster growth and poverty reduction in poor countries.
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There is a robust positive relationship between globalization and inequality in the transition countries including China and most countries of Middle and Eastern Europe.
Both the advocates and critics of globalization seem to share a fundamental assumption about the inevitability of globalization, seeing globalization as bringing
This study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research concludes that the data provide no evidence that the policies associated with globalization have improved outcomes for developing countries, and its findings challenge economists and policymakers who cite globalization as an engine of growth while pressing for policies that strengthen the trend.
The benefits and costs of globalization have been distributed asymmetrically, placing poor people in poor countries at a disadvantage, especially as regards the free movement of low–skilled labour and the creation of intellectual property rights.
Even many of those who are not enthusiastic about all aspects of globalization—ranging from the free-trade economist, Jagdish Bhagwati, advocating capital control to some nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) accusing the developed countries for not opening up their agricultural markets—seem to agree that free trade is the most benign, or at least a less problematic, element in the progress of globalization.
The evidence presented in Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics suggests that globalization is creating sharper, more urgent problems for states and international institutions to deal with.
I find that globalization induces countries to increase agricultural protection.
This article argues against the juggernaut view of globalization, suggesting that much depends on how we engage with the forces of globalization to mitigate their worst consequences and use them to advantage.
Using cross-national survey data from 16 countries we show that globalization has significant and heterogenous individual-level effects.
Furthermore, this paper emphasizes that divergent patterns of globalization are not predetermined by national institutions.
This paper argues that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple correlations suggest.
Challenges the assumption that host countries will necessarily benefit from globalization.