Globalization, Employment and Income Distribution in Developing Countries

This book examines the impact of globalization on employment, income distribution and poverty reduction in developing countries using the five country studies of Ghana, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nepal and Vietnam, looking at the evidence for targeted economic and social policies both at national and international levels.

Author Biography

EDDY LEE is Economic Adviser at the International Institute of Labour Studies, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland. He was previously Director of International Policies and principal author of key ILO publications such as the World Employment Reports. He has a BPhil and DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and has published widely in the fields of development economics and international economic and social policies. MARCO VIVARELLI is Professor of Economic Policy at the Catholic University of Piacenza, Italy. He is Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA),