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81 Foreign Aff. 120 (2002)
Spreading the Wealth

handle is hein.journals/fora81 and id is 126 raw text is: Spreading the Wealth David Dollar and Aart Kraay A RISING TIDE ONE OF THE MAIN CLAIMS of the antiglobalization movement is that globalization is widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. It benefits the rich and does little for the poor, perhaps even making their lot harder. As union leader Jay Mazur put it in these pages, globalization has dramatically increased inequality between and within nations (Labor's New Internationalism, January/February 2000). The problem with this new conventional wisdom is that the best evidence available shows the exact oppo- site to be true. So far, the current wave of globalization, which started around 198o, has actually promoted economic equality and reduced poverty. Global economic integration has complex effects on income, culture, society, and the environment. But in the debate over globalization's merits, its impact on poverty is particularly important. If international trade and investment primarily benefit the rich, many people will feel that restricting trade to protect jobs, culture, or the environment is worth the costs. But if restricting trade imposes further hardship on poor people in the developing world, many of the same people will think otherwise. Three facts bear on this question. First, a long-term global trend toward greater inequality prevailed for at least 200 years; it peaked around 1975. But since then, it has stabilized and possibly even reversed. The chief reason for the change has been the accelerated growth of two large and initially poor countries: China and India. DAVID DOLLAR and AART KRAAY are economists at the World Bank's Development Research Group. The views expressed here are their own. [120]

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