Globalization and poverty, and the poverty of globalization theory

Article Abstract:

A debate on globalization is focused on two apparently separate debates, on the links between trade liberalization, growth and poverty reduction, and on theories that give too much explanatory weight to the concept of globalization. If poverty is reduced in the world, then it is largely because of growth in China and India and it is basically their growth records that are the reason for all the optimism about growth, poverty and inequality.

International aspects, Poverty, Free trade

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From path dependency to path creation: Finland on its way to the knowledge-based economy

Article Abstract:

The reframing of research on techno-economic change with the help of the traditional path dependency perspective is described. The conceptual framework approach is used to analyze the way in which Finland managed to transform itself from a resource-based into a knowledge-based economy.

Finland, Economic aspects, Knowledge economy, Dependency (Economics)

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Globalization: A triumph of ambiguity

Article Abstract:

A study shows that the kind of development in socio logical studies on globalization, which seriously hinders the progress of empirical studies on the subject cannot be seen. It needs to be specified from which point of view the researcher is approaching the concept of globalization.

Influence, Globalization

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