Globalization Industrialization And Labour Markets In East And South Asia

Author : Rajah Rasiah,Bruce McFarlane,Sarosh Kuruvilla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317408079

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Globalization, Industrialization and Labour Markets in East and South Asia by Rajah Rasiah,Bruce McFarlane,Sarosh Kuruvilla Pdf

Among the key debates fought in developing economies is whether globalization through liberalization is the means by which economies can industrialize and provide their labour forces with tangible improvements in the material conditions of living. This book addresses this issue head on, using empirical evidence from some of the fastest growing and transition economies from East and South Asia. Countries such as the Philippines and Malaysia have already started to deindustrialize before enjoying industrial maturity, while with the exception of China and evidence of some growth in real wages in the other economies, the evidence appears compelling to suggest that increased industrialization and integration into the capitalist economy have not succeeded in providing significant labour improvement. The evidence suggests that a proactive state, focusing on enhancing the material conditions of labour, is pertinent to ensuring sustainable long term industrialization and thus improving material conditions for workers. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.

Author : A. Kaur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230596702

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Women Workers in Industrialising Asia by A. Kaur Pdf

This collection contributes to key theoretical debates about women workers in Asia and breaks new ground by focussing on issues that have been little documented in other studies in the area. It provides new information and insights into labour systems associated with labour intensive export manufactures and state-labour relations in a comparative context. The contributors present a range of unique and varied perspectives from which they consider aspects of the increasing integration of Asian economies, exploring implications for their labour markets.

Author : Mita Bhattacharya
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1594540306

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South Asia in the Era of Globalization by Mita Bhattacharya Pdf

The South Asian economies constitute the largest and most densely populated region of the world. With an estimated 1.4 billion plus people, this is a larger market area than China. This volume addresses South Asia's opening up and attempts to integrate into the global economy. The volume is unique among existing offerings on South Asia in that it covers the dynamics of structural adjustments due to globalisation, focusing on the development and welfare aspects of the region. The contributions, by a broad range of international experts from the disciplines of banking and finance, economics, management and political science, are informed by three central themes. The three themes are industry reforms and market adjustment; economic performance and the effects on globalisation on specific industries; and economic development, poverty and welfare issues. The volume adopts a broad interdisciplinary approach to these issues and will appeal to readers from across the business disciplines.

Author : Amarjit Kaur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349427497

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Women Workers in Industrialising Asia by Amarjit Kaur Pdf

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393071078

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Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz Pdf

This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank. Particularly concerned with the plight of the developing nations, he became increasingly disillusioned as he saw the International Monetary Fund and other major institutions put the interests of Wall Street and the financial community ahead of the poorer nations. Those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. While this book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to come. Rarely do we get such an insider's analysis of the major institutions of globalization as in this penetrating book. With a new foreword for this paperback edition.

Author : Erhan Artuc,Gladys Lopez-Acevedo,Raymond Robertson,Daniel Samaan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464812491

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Exports to Jobs by Erhan Artuc,Gladys Lopez-Acevedo,Raymond Robertson,Daniel Samaan Pdf

South Asia has grown rapidly with significant reductions in poverty, but it has not been able to match the fast-growing working age population, leading to lingering concerns about jobless growth and poor job quality. Could export growth in South Asia result in better labor market outcomes? The answer is yes, according to our study, which rigorously estimates—using a new methodology—the potential impact from higher South Asian exports per worker on wages and employment over a 10-year period. Our study shows the positive side of trade. It finds that increasing exports per worker would result in higher wages—mainly for better-off groups, like more educated workers, males, and more-experienced workers—although less-skilled workers would see the largest reduction in informality. How can the benefits be spread more widely? Our study suggests that scaling up exports in labor-intensive industries could significantly lower informality for groups like rural and less-educated workers in the region. Also, increasing skills, and participation of women and young workers in the labor force could make an even bigger dent in informal employment. The region could achieve these gains by: (i) boosting and connecting exports to people (e.g., removing trade barriers and investment in infrastructure); (ii) eliminating distortions in production (e.g., by more efficient allocation of inputs); and (iii) protecting workers (e.g., by investing in education and skills).

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292610395

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Human Capital Development in South Asia by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Human capital is an important factor for economic growth in South Asia. Between 1981 and 2010, human capital contributed about 22% of annual gross domestic product per worker growth in India. During the same period, it contributed around 21% in Bangladesh, and 16% in Sri Lanka. However, education and skills remain the binding constraint. Raising the quality of education and skills in South Asia's workforce can play a critical role in catching up to the level of development of the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and other successful Southeast Asian economies. This study reviews the development of human capital in South Asia and analyzes contributing factors to human development including policies and strategies that countries in South Asia follow.

Author : Mr.Hamid R Davoodi,Mr.George T. Abed
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1589062299

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Challenges of Growth and Globalization in the Middle East and North Africa by Mr.Hamid R Davoodi,Mr.George T. Abed Pdf

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an economically diverse region. Despite undertaking economic reforms in many countries, and having considerable success in avoiding crises and achieving macroeconomic stability, the region’s economic performance in the past 30 years has been below potential. This paper takes stock of the region’s relatively weak performance, explores the reasons for this out come, and proposes an agenda for urgent reforms.

Author : Arkebe Oqubay,Christopher Cramer,Ha-Joon Chang,Richard Kozul-Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198862420

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The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy by Arkebe Oqubay,Christopher Cramer,Ha-Joon Chang,Richard Kozul-Wright Pdf

Industrial policy has long been regarded as a strategy to encourage sector-, industry-, or economy-wide development by the state. It has been central to competitiveness, catching up, and structural change in both advanced and developing countries. It has also been one of the most contested perspectives, reflecting ideologically inflected debates and shifts in prevailing ideas. There has lately been a renewed interest in industrial policy in academic circles and international policy dialogues, prompted by the weak outcomes of policies pursued by many developing countries under the direction of the Washington Consensus (and its descendants), the slow economic recovery of many advanced economies after the 2008 global financial crisis, and mounting anxieties about the national consequences of globalization. The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy presents a comprehensive review of and a novel approach to the conceptual and theoretical foundations of industrial policy. The Handbook also presents analytical perspectives on how industrial policy connects to broader issues of development strategy, macro-economic policies, infrastructure development, human capital, and political economy. By combining historical and theoretical perspectives, and integrating conceptual issues with empirical evidence drawn from advanced, emerging, and developing countries, The Handbook offers valuable lessons and policy insights to policymakers, practitioners and researchers on developing productive transformation, technological capabilities, and international competitiveness. It addresses pressing issues including climate change, the gendered dimensions of industrial policy, global governance, and technical change. Written by leading international thinkers on the subject, the volume pulls together different perspectives and schools of thought from neo-classical to structuralist development economists to discuss and highlight the adaptation of industrial policy in an ever-changing socio-economic and political landscape.

Author : Truman G. Packard,Trang Van Nguyen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464800047

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East Asia Pacific at Work by Truman G. Packard,Trang Van Nguyen Pdf

The unprecedented progress of East Asia Pacific is a triumph of working people. Countries that were low-income a generation ago successfully integrated into the global value chain, exploiting their labor-cost advantage. In 1990, the region held about a third of the world’s labor force. Leveraging this comparative advantage, the share of global GDP of emerging economies in East Asia Pacific grew from 7 percent in 1992 to 17 percent in 2011. Yet, the region now finds itself at a critical juncture. Work and its contribution to growth and well-being can no longer be taken for granted. The challenges range from high youth inactivity and rising inequality to binding skills shortages. A key underlying issue is economic informality, which constrains innovation and productivity, limits the tax base, and increases household vulnerability to shocks. Informality is both a consequence of stringent labor regulations and limited enforcement capacity. In several countries, de jure employment regulations are more stringent than in many parts of Europe. Even labor regulations set at reasonable levels but poorly implemented can aggravate the market failures they were designed to overcome. This report argues that the appropriate policy responses are to ensure macroeconomic stability, and in particular, a regulatory framework that encourages small- and medium-sized enterprises where most people in the region work. Mainly agrarian countries should focus on raising agricultural productivity. In urbanizing countries, good urban planning becomes critical. Pacific island countries will need to provide youth with human capital needed to succeed abroad as migrant workers. And, across the region, it is critical to ‘formalize’ more work, to increase the coverage of essential social protection, and to sustain productivity. To this end, policies should encourage mobility of labor and human capital, and not favor some forms of employment - for instance, full-time wage employment in manufacturing - over others, either implicitly or explicitly. Policies to increase growth and well-being from employment should instead reflect and support the dynamism and diversity of work forms across the region.

Author : Gordon Betcherman,Rizwanul Islam
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821344781

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East Asian Labor Markets and the Economic Crisis by Gordon Betcherman,Rizwanul Islam Pdf

This book looks at the impacts of the Asian economic crisis on the labor market, examining how various countries respondedIt identifies the labour policy reforms needed in areas of unemployment benefit, active labour market programs, support for vulnerable groups and social dialogue.

Author : Marc Bacchetta,Ekkehard Ernst,Juana P. Bustamante
Publisher : World Trade Organization
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9287036918

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Globalization and Informal Jobs in Developing Countries by Marc Bacchetta,Ekkehard Ernst,Juana P. Bustamante Pdf

World trade has expanded significantly in recent years, making a major contribution to global growth. Economic growth has not led to a corresponding improvement in working conditions and living standards for many workers. In developing countries, job creation has largely taken place in the informal economy, where around 60 per cent of workers are employed. Most of the workers in the informal economy have almost no job security, low incomes and no social protection, with limited opportunities to benefit from globalization. This study focuses on the relationship between trade And The growth of the informal economy in developing countries. Based on existing academic literature, complemented with new empirical research by the ILO And The WTO, The study discusses how trade reform affects different aspects of the informal economy. it also examines how high rates of informal employment diminish the scope for developing countries to translate trade openness into sustainable long-term growth. The report analyses how well-designed trade and decent-work friendly policies can complement each other so as to promote sustainable development and growing prosperity in developing countries.

Author : Duncan Campbell,Asma Lateef,Aurelio Parisotto,Anil Verma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349259311

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Regionalization and Labour Market Interdependence in East and Southeast Asia by Duncan Campbell,Asma Lateef,Aurelio Parisotto,Anil Verma Pdf

How can we account for the dynamic growth of East and Southeast Asian countries? Much of the debate has turned on the question of the 'state' versus the 'market' as exclusive (and often competing) explanations of the successful performance of individual countries. This book explores the distinctively interdependent nature of the East and Southeast Asian experience. As firms create a regional organization of production, the growing interdependence of national labour markets is one major outcome.

Author : Ann Brooks,Theresa Devasahayam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136848186

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Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets - Asian and Western Perspectives by Ann Brooks,Theresa Devasahayam Pdf

The concept of emotional labour has largely emerged from the analysis of organizations in the West. However, little has been written about the issue of what defines emotional labour and how it is configured in different cultural contexts. This book addresses this gap in the literature and considers how, and in what ways, emotional labour characterises formal and informal work environments in Southeast Asia.

Author : Keijiro Otsuka,Kaoru Sugihara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811331312

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Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa by Keijiro Otsuka,Kaoru Sugihara Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or delayed), by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics. Its aim is to identify relevant historical contexts, that is, the ‘initial conditions’ and internal and external forces which governed the transition. It also aims to understand what current low-income developing countries require for their transition. Three economic driving forces for the transition are identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2) international trade, which facilitates efficient international division of labor; and (3) agricultural development, which improves food security by increasing supply of staple foods. The book presents a bold account of each driver for the transition.