Brookings Trade Forum: 2004

This annual series provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics.

Contents:

GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY

Competing Concepts of Inequality in the Globalization Debate
Martin Ravallion (World Bank)

Channels from Globalization to Inequality: Productivity World versus Factor World
William Easterly (New York University)

Health in an Age of Globalization
Angus Deaton (Princeton University)

BROADER INDICATORS OF WELL-BEING

Assessing the Impact of Globalization on Poverty and Inequality: A New Lens on an Old Puzzle
Carol Graham (Brookings Institution)

Poverty and the Organization of Political Violence: A Review and Some Conjectures
Nicholas Sambanis (Yale University)

IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION

Trade, Inequality, and Poverty: What Do We Know?
Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University) and Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College)

The Impact of Globalization on the Poor
Pranab Bardhan (University of California, Berkeley)

LOOKING FORWARD

Why Global Inequality Matters
Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development)

Some Speculation on Growth and Poverty over the Twenty-First Century
Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University)

Susan M. Collins is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and a professor of economics at Georgetown University. Her publications focus on various dimensions of economic policy and performance for developing countries. Carol Graham is a senior fellow in both Foreign Policy Studies and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, where she holds the Charles Robinson Chair in Foreign Policy. Her most recent book is Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford University Press, 2010).