IDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: International Monetary Fund, Conditional Cash Transfer, Economic Globalization
6 Dec 2018
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Inequality : poverty-not just income, poverty and inequality are linked to power inequalities, both international and domestic. Poverty and inequality at the international level: economic globalization (elimination of economic borders to facilitate trade and investment), mncs, banks, stabilization and structural adjustment, 1980s on international monetary fund (imf) and. World bank, labor flexibilization: world trade regime, world trade organization (wto. Domestic political challenges to poverty and inequality reduction: the legacies of entrenched social compartmentalization, control of state is key, state weakness powerful propertied groups example: mexican bank rescue operation, 1995: unequal social provisioning, regressive taxation, conditional cash transfer programs, weak civil society organizations and trade unions, the centrality of politics. The interplay of history, domestic power structures, international ones, and the process of. Economic globalization : there is no quick fix . Mexico: population: 128 million (2016, poverty: 41. 2, inequality: historically high. High levels of poverty (2x the level of the general population)
