Does Globalization Adversely Affect Population and Poverty? The Views of Five Panelists(<Special Issue>Population and Globalization)

Abstract

The final plenary session of the 2002 IUSSP Regional Population Conference on Southeast Asia's Population in a Changing Asian Context addressed the effects of globalization on population and poverty. Richard Leete of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) organized and chaired the session. Two panel members, Andrew Mason and Simeen Mahmud, agreed to stimulate debate by presenting the case that globalization was not adversely affecting population and poverty. The other two panelists, Ogawa Naohiro and Rafiqul Huda Chaudhury, presented the case that globalization was adversely affecting population and poverty. Each of the panel members was asked to summarize the views presented at the forum.