TY - BOOK ID - 145872311 TI - Globalization and economic development : essays in Honour of J. George Waardenburg AU - Storm, Servaas. AU - Naastepad, C. W. M. AU - Edward Elgar Publishing. PY - 2001 SN - 1781950830 PB - Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., DB - UniCat KW - International economic relations. KW - Globalization. KW - Economic development. KW - Waardenburg, J. George. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145872311 AB - Globalization is widely regarded as a means not only of ensuring efficiency and growth, but also of achieving equity and development for those countries operating in the global economy. The book argues that this perception of globalization as the road to development has lost its lustre. The experience of the 1990s belied expectation of the gains, such as faster growth and reduced poverty, which could be achieved through closer integration in the world economy. ER -