Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123586 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/13/014
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure financial liberalization (KAOPEN) has a positive income-redistribution impact while the de facto measure (FDI) does not; (2) political liberalization has a disequalizing effect and; (3) economic freedom has a positive (negative) effect on inequality (poverty). Hence, economic freedom does not stop the wealthy from growing wealthier, but at the same time provides for conditions that mitigate poverty. The findings broadly show that, despite the substantially documented negative incidences of some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that will give capital openness, trade and economic liberalizations a human face. Social implications and policy options are discussed.
Subjects: 
Globalization
Inequality
Poverty
Formal institutions
Africa
JEL: 
F30
F41
F50
O15
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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