Globalisation, Inequality and Climate Change

What Difference Does China Make

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5877473
AutoresRaphael Kaplinsky (0000-0002-4190-970X, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume2
Fascículo1
Páginas67-78
Data de publicação2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00072.x
OpenAlexW2019500509
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas13

The deepening of globalisation in the late 20th century saw accelerating climate change, growing inequality and obstinate levels of poverty, not just in low-income economies, but also in the European Union and the rest of the high-income world. These outcomes can be traced directly to the workings of the global economy. Three developments suggest a limit to deepening globalisation. Global production systems are environmentally unsustainable; global excess production capacity is leading to a race to the bottom in wages for many, not just in the developing world. China's access to the global economy, with its overwhelming resource hunger and large and educated labour force, exacerbates these developments. Indian development is around the corner. What can be done? Global production systems need to be truncated and growth needs to become more local. China, India and other newly emergent Asian economies need to be drawn into the discussions and institutions of global governance

China · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Global governance · Globalization · Inequality · Market economy · Political science · Poverty · World economy · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Economic Growth and Productivity · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy