Fourth Project Conference: The Impact of Globalization on the Poor in Latin America

The organizers are looking particularly for empirical and conceptual studies exploring the impact of globalization on the poor in Latin America through one or more of its various manifestations. a) Globalization and the chronic poor b) ‘Corporate globalization’ and the poor c) Threshold and externality effects of globalization and dynamics of ‘between-country inequality’ d) Factor mobility and factor price dynamics e) Global economic cycles, financial crisis and poverty f) WTO rules and other international governance mechanisms and the poor g) Technology changes/diffusion and the poor h) Re-distributional policy and other public policies and the poor i) Globalization as a development strategy