Globalization and Uneven Development

摘要

The paper provides an explanation of the very uneven distribution of the costs and benefits of globalization among regions and states. It begins by distinguishing between globalization as a historical process and globalization as a particular ideology associated with the neo-liberal turn of the early 1980s. After laying out the basic trends of the global political economy over a 40 year period, it points to some of the circumstances that have enabled India and especially China to take advantage of globalization as a historical process and avoid the economic disasters that have affected countries and regions that have adhered to globalization as ideology. It concludes by suggesting possible ways in which these other regions may also benefit from, rather than bear a disproportionate share of the costs of globalization.