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8 How Is Economic Globalization Affecting Inequality?
Pages 83-90

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... corresponds with the rise of new forms economic indicators such as gross domestic product per of economic globalization that have transformed spatial capita (sometimes weighted by national population)
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From page 84...
... and for research that builds undertaken by geographically oriented researchers multiscale models and draws on spatially referenced in demography, geography, economics, and political data. Geographical scientists are at the forefront of science, has shown that inequality emerges from multhis research, undertaking projects aimed at represent- tiple processes operating simultaneously at a range of ing and analyzing the intersections between the spatial spatial scales, including unequal global distributions and social dimensions of inequality.
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From page 85...
... Prior research has compared patterns as a result of global financial instability, new global and processes of within-country inequality for Britain, trade regimes, and environmental instability in the t he United States, South Africa, and the former wake of the transition from socialist to capitalist, Soviet Union to determine how different economic globalized economies in some parts of the world (cf. structures, institutional arrangements and processes Mykhenko and Swain, 2010, who provide a conof discrimination (apartheid, class, gender and race)
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From page 86...
... Their work points analyses that are needed across countries. to the importance of analyzing the inequality outcomes New geographical visualization techniques also of international trade treaties, global environmental offer insights into linkages between inequality and regulations, global regulations on investments and the the multiple consequences of globalization.
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From page 87...
... These liberalization pro- tween many cities; an expanding role for transnational cesses, along with exuberant lending, overconfidence in corporations in global production and consumption monetary policy (as an effective control on money and networks; and the large-scale privatization, and intercredit supplies) , and floating currencies, brought both national ownership, of telecommunications, transport high economic growth rates and considerable economic systems, and primary resource extraction in low-income turbulence, with dramatically different impacts for countries (Dicken, 2003)
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From page 88...
... . Drawing together data on integrated datasets from existing national and interclimate impacts on crop yields, changes in plant pollina- national sources at a range of spatial scales, including tion and competition, and human vulnerability to climate production and trade data, household income surveys, change, Leichenko and O'Brien (2008)
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From page 89...
... Geo- examination of the globalization of soy and beef indusgraphical scientists investigate how spatial relationships tries based in the Brazilian Amazon. They developed a shape inequality, such as the relationships between network analysis that connects growing fears of bovine production in low-income countries and rich-country spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease)
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From page 90...
... He found that African market liberalization on inequality within states, at the cotton growers are relatively marginalized in negotia- local scale and across the globe. In particular, much tions over prices for seed cotton, fertilizers, and pes- could be gained from comparative case studies employticides vis-à-vis ginning and marketing companies, as ing rigorous experimental frameworks that include well as in dealings with cotton trading companies that common questions and metrics to facilitate aggregation set prices based on world markets.
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Key Terms

  • geographical research
  • commodity chains
  • trade agreements
  • global economy
  • spatial scales

  • trade liberalization
  • global financial
  • world trade
  • economic sectors
  • global cotton

  • international trade
  • spatial patterns
  • global processes
  • free trade
  • household income

  • geographical sciences
  • processes producing
  • income surveys
  • human vulnerability
  • trade organization

  • west african
  • financial crisis
  • inequality effects
  • inequality patterns
  • internet connectivity

  • census data
  • unequal global
  • trade data
  • national scale
  • changing economic


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