Globalization and the Developing World: An Essay on the International Dimensions of Development in the Post-Cold War Era

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Keith Griffin

University of California, Riverside (UCR) - Department of Economics

Azur Khan

Independent

Date Written: July 16, 1992

Abstract

The first version of this study was prepared for the United Nations Development Programme as a background document for the Human Development Report 1992. It is not surprising therefore that some of the ideas in this study bear more than a passing likeness to parts of this year's Human Development Report. This study, however, covers a number of issues not raised in the UNDP publication and, where there is overlap, the treatment sometimes is different and more extensive.

Initial thoughts on globalization were stimulated when Keith Griffin visited the OECD Development Centre in Paris in 1990. Charles Oman, Louis Emmerij (the President of the Development Centre) and other colleagues kindly commented on an essay which attempted to outline the major issues for research for the Centre's proposed project on "globalization and regionalisation". At Üner Kirdar's suggestion, some of these ideas were presented at a UNDP sponsored meeting of the North South Roundtable in Antalya, Turkey. Parts of this study also formed the basis for seminars at the University of Southern California, the North-South Institute in Ottawa, Canada and the University of California, Riverside. We are grateful to the participants at the seminars for their constructive suggestions. James Mittelman kindly commented on the first draft of this study and we are grateful to him for giving us the perspective of a political scientist.

Keywords: human development, development, measurement, HDR, HDRO, UNDP, HDI

Suggested Citation

Griffin, Keith and Khan, Azur, Globalization and the Developing World: An Essay on the International Dimensions of Development in the Post-Cold War Era (July 16, 1992). UNDP Human Development Report Office Paper No. 2, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2294619

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