Title: Does Globalization Harm the Poor?
Headings: 
Does Globalization Harm the Poor?
Is Globalization a Force for Poverty Alleviation, or a Driver of Inequality?
Global Poverty Reduced
What about Inequality?
Why Domestic Policies Matter
Baylee Eby
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Further readings on Economics 101

Content: Bandow tells us that according to the World Bank, changes in inequality are usually small and globalization contributes to positive changes in the developing world: Most of the globalizing developing countries have seen only small changes in household inequality, and inequality has declined in such countries as the Philippines and Malaysia. Moreover, greater economic openness to the world has tended to reduce gender inequality. Anne Bradley argues that income inequality can actually be a sign of a robust economy. It’s not, of course, when inequality forms as a result of exploitation, but when it comes from trade that means greater specialization from markets and more trading partners. In an article on poverty and inequality, Bradley states,
Income inequality deals with how income is held over a society. Unless everyone is exactly equal, there will always be a top and a bottom. What matters is how the folks at the bottom fare and whether they have opportunities to use their God-given creativity and skills to give them income mobility. Globalization can allow just that: an expansion of opportunities for those at the bottom which provides greater economic and social mobility.