GLOBALIZATION, DEBT RELIEF AND POVERTY REDUCTION
CONCEPTS AND POLICIES*
DR SUMIT ROY
*This paper is based on the first millennium Lecture/Seminar of the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, delivered
on 19 January, 2000. The author, a Senior Visiting Fellow, School of Social
and Human Sciences, City University, UK, has been researching on
globalization and structural change and has acted as an Independent
Expert on Globalization and poverty for UNCTAD, United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development. He has been a Senior Economist
at the International Labour Office, Geneva, was nominated to serve on the
UN Human Rights Commission, and has taught in the UK, India and
Nigeria. His publications include Economic Progress and Prospects in the
Third World:Lessons of Development Experience Since 1945, Edward
Elgar [co-authored with Sir Hans Singer], Agriculture and Technology in
Developing Countries:India and Nigeria, Sage, and papers in the Economic
and Political Weekly and World Affairs. Comments to
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