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Anne O Krueger
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Anne O Krueger: Johns Hopkins University, USA

Chapter 1 in Struggling with Success:Challenges Facing the International Economy, 2012, pp 1-12 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractTo anyone with knowledge of economic history, attacks on globalization and politicians’ expressed desires to reverse it are astonishing. Globalization has been going on for centuries. Its consequences have greatly increased life expectancies, the quality of life, and standards of living. As seen in Chapter 2, even in 1900 in the United States, only about 6 percent of Americans lived above what is now the poverty line! Until the 1950s, per capita incomes were low throughout the developing world, malnutrition and hunger were widespread, and life expectancies and literacy rates were very low. As documented later in this volume, progress in the past half century has been enormous.

Keywords: Multilateralism; International Economy; IMF; WTO; Financial Crises; Sovereign Debt; International Economic System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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