I am writing an essay that will examine the negative impacts of globalization by criticizing the neoliberal paradigm through the lens of Russia during the 1990s.
On the international level, the Soviet collapse represented the end of the Cold War
From an economic point of view, a negative aspect of globalization was the rapid takeover of Russian production factors (capital, land and labor) by international capital. On the other hand, a positive phenomenon of trade liberalization and globalization was the increase in entrepreneurship, which was not possible under the communist rule.
On the other hand, from a sociological and social point of view, globalization and liberalization allowed the Russians to compare how they lived and how they can live thanks to the opening of the economy and the "freedom" of information. The window to the world and with it many perspectives has been opened.
Despite the many positives and negatives of this phenomenon, it is necessary to combine the economic and social aspects, because they are very dependent on each other.
On poverty and distributional issues, I would recommend several references:
Micklewright, J. and Flemming, J. (2000) Income Distribution, Economic Systems, and Transition” (with J. Flemming), in A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds), andbook of Income Distribution, North-Holland.
Micklewright, J. and Atkinson, A. B. (1992). Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income, Cambridge University Press.
http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/229251468767984676/pdf/multi-page.pdf
Also Globalisation induced a process of "politics of institutionalisation" (Jadwiga Staniszkis, 1999, Post-Communism): „The politics of post-communist institutionalisation are understood here as a process of developing and transforming institutions within which and by means of which power is exercised, maintained and extended, and which also serve to advance the vested interests of particular groups.” From this process, power strategies were developed by the new/old elites: „The elites in post-communist countries are currently engaged in seeking such a multidimensional set-up of equilibrium between globalization, formation of capital and stabilization.“ (Staniszkis)
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