Jagdish Bhagwati

1 Poverty and income distribution The world we live in presents a picture of appalling contrasts. While a few countries are immensely prosperous, nearly two-thirds of the population of the world subsists on sub-standard incomes. Illiteracy, bad housing, lack of medical care and malnutrition are...

The riot-torn meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 was only the most dramatic sign of the intensely passionate debate now raging over globalization, which critics blame for everything from child labor to environmental degradation, cultural homogenization, and a host of other...