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Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs? »
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s): Matthew Slaughter , and Phillip Swagel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 September 1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756794.051
ISBN: 9781557756794
Keywords: wages, wage, skilled workers, import competition, international trade
Increased globalization - the international integration of markets for goods, technology, labor, and capital - has coincided in the past 20 years with a shift in demand from less-skilled workers to those with more...

Rural Poverty in Developing Countries : Implications for Public Policy »
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s): Mahmood Khan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 14 March 2001
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589060067.051
ISBN: 9781589060067
Keywords: rural poverty, health care, agricultural land, paper, literacy
Reviews causes of poverty in rural areas and presents a policy framework for reducing rural poverty, including through land reform, public works programs, access to credit, physical and social infrastructure, subsi...

Rural Poverty in Developing Countries : Implications for Public Policy »
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s): Mahmood Khan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 16 January 2003
Language: Arabic
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589060098.051
ISBN: 9781589060098
Keywords: Developing countries, Poverty, rural poverty, health care, agricultural land, paper, literacy, staple foods, food programs, rural women
Reviews causes of poverty in rural areas and presents a policy framework for reducing rural poverty, including through land reform, public works programs, access to credit, physical and social infrastructure, subsi...

Rural Poverty in Developing Countries : Implications for Public Policy »
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s): Mahmood Khan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 06 February 2002
Language: Chinese
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589060104.051
ISBN: 9781589060104
Keywords: Developed countries, Poverty, rural poverty, health care, agricultural land, paper, literacy, staple foods, food programs, rural women
Reviews causes of poverty in rural areas and presents a policy framework for reducing rural poverty, including through land reform, public works programs, access to credit, physical and social infrastructure, subsi...

Rural Poverty in Developing Countries : Implications for Public Policy »
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s): Mahmood Khan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 February 2002
Language: Russian
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589060111.051
ISBN: 9781589060111
Keywords: Developing countries, Poverty, rural poverty, health care, agricultural land, paper, literacy, staple foods, food programs, rural women
Reviews causes of poverty in rural areas and presents a policy framework for reducing rural poverty, including through land reform, public works programs, access to credit, physical and social infrastructure, subsi...