Human development in the era of globalization : essays in honor of Keith B. Griffin / edited by James Boyce [and others].

Includes bibliographical references.

The fall in Chinese poverty: issues of measurement, incidence and cause / Carl Riskin -- The rural-urban divide and the evolution of political economy in China / John Knight, Li Shi, Lina Song -- Socialist fetters? Land tenure and economic growth in post-Mao rural China / Mark D. Brenner -- A future for small farms? Biodiversity and sustainable agriculture / James K. Boyce -- The impact of policy reforms on rural poverty in Brazil: evidence from three states in the 1990s / Steven M. Helfand, Edward S. Levine -- Has Columbia finally found an agrarian reform that works? Albert Berry -- Death and development / Bob Sutcliffe -- On comparing functioning bundles and capability sets / Prasanta K. Pattanaik.

Environment, poverty and development / Charles Perrings -- Globalization and the transition to egalitarian development / Robert Pollin -- Gender equality, public finance and globalization / Diane Elson -- Class transition in the age of globalization: examples from the rural sectors in India and Kenya -- Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg, Mwangi wa Githinji -- What will become of the welfare state? / Victor D. Lippit -- The structure and distribution of personal income and poverty reduction: a case study of Bangladesh during the 1990s / Azizur Rahman Khan, Binayak Sen -- Poverty as injustice: refocusing the policy agenda / Rehman Sobhan -- Economic policies and poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific: alternatives to neoliberalism / Terry McKinley.