The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: Twenty Years of Diminished Progress

Among supporters of globalization, there is remarkable disrespect for even the most basic facts. For example, World Bank data shows the vast majority of developing countries experienced slower growth between 1980 to 2000 than in the preceding twenty years. But even in light of such compelling evidence, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told the New York Times:

"When history books are written 200 years from now about the last two decades of the 20th century, I am convinced that the end of the cold war will be the second story. The first story will be about the appearance of emerging markets-about the fact that developing countries where more than three billion people live have moved toward the market and seen rapid growth in incomes."

Please join us as Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot examine the performance of low and middle income countries on a variety of standard economic and social indicators, in the era of globalization.

Participants

• Dean Baker
  Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research


• Mark Weisbrot
  Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research

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