[lbo-talk] ILO on "Free Trade"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Dec 2 11:19:27 PST 2003


Kevin Robert Dean wrote:


>In a book that is bound to provoke the anti-globalisation community,
>an economist with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has
>challenged a range of popular concerns about the effects of
>globalisation.
>
>"Contrary to popular perceptions, global income inequality is
>actually declining," senior economist Ajit Ghose argues in his new
>book, Jobs and Incomes in a Globalizing World.

You can't say anything like that with any certainty. Nor can you say the opposite. It's very sensitive to how you define and measure.

Doug



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