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 Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: are the criticisms vague, vested, or valid? Prepared for the NBER Pre-conference on Globalization, Poverty and Inequality October 24-25, 2003 By Emma Aisbett University of California at Berkeley This draft: September 20, 2003 Abstract: Lasting global economic integration is not the inevitable outcome of the process of globalization. Many alternative outcomes are possible, and many of these will be far less favorable to the poor. The best hope of achieving beneficial outcomes from globalization is to improve the quality of the dialog between participants on both sides of the debate. This paper contributes to this goal by explaining some of the reasons for the widely differing opinions of the impact of globalization on poverty and inequality in developing countries, and by suggesting ways in which researchers can better target their efforts towards allaying fears about globalization. It suggests that the public have more interest in poverty reporting based on total headcounts rather than  poverty incidence, and which acknowledges non-monetary dimensions of poverty. In regard to inequality, statistics that focus on absolute gains from globalization and on income polarization are likely to have more resonance than statistics that attempt to summarize the shape of the income distribution. 1

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