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The age of capital and inequality ‘Is globalization headed for the rocks’ debate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington, November 2, 2006 Branko Milanovic

Fact 1 Globalization II vs. Globalization I: More trade, greater capital interconnectedness, less movement of people

Trade, capital flows and migration in Globalizations I and II Estimated foreign assets/world GDP (%) US Immigrant rate per 1000 population Exports/world GDI (in %) Third world share in total DFI (%) ’s *28 Sources: Craft (2000, p.26, 27, 30), Baldwin and Martin (1999). * = year 2002.

Fact 2 An unequal world where most of inequality is due to income differences between nations

twoway (line Y02_c group if contcod=="BRA") (line Y02_c group if contcod=="IDN-R") (line Y02_c group if contcod=="DEU") (line Y02_c group if contcod=="LKA") (line Y02_c group if contcod=="CHN-U"), legend(off) xtitle(country vent> ile) ytitle(percentile of world income distribution) text(90 3 "Germany") text(62 5 "urban China") text(50 6 "Brazi l") text(52 12 "Sri Lanka") text(40 18 "rural India") Germany urban China Brazil Sri Lanka rural India percentile of world income distribution country ventile

Globalization in rich countries Trade, outsourcing, foreign L inflows place a pressure on employment In all cases, the pressure is greater on low- and medium-skilled jobs Leads to the questioning of the basic premises on which post-War Welfare State was created

Welfare state under stress The premises: class (social) and ethnic homogeneity With increasing national inequality, classes become more dissimilar => affects decision about social policies (unemployment insurance, private pensions, private vs. public schooling and health) Privatization of social services is reflection of social polarization

Kapital vs. labor Asymmetric relationship between capital and labor (noted already by Adam Smith; collective action problem). Unevenness of power, exacerbated by free mobility of capital and lower tax rates on capital, end of socialism, single ideology (pensée unique) Not surprising that the slogan is Another world is possible (no definition of what another means)

Migration Migration more popular among better educated in rich countries (World values survey; Source: Anna Maria Mayda ) Do interests of the rich in rich countries and very poor in poor countries coincide? Inability of welfare state to survive in the present shape with even very modest migratory flows leads to the creation of Fortress America and Fortress Europe

Paradoxical situation: fall of the Berlin Wall; but now we have the Brussels velvet wall, or the US- Mexico wall, or interdiction of Europe to Africans But migration does not come out of nowhere. Is it a reflection of failed globalization and policies associated with it in large parts of the world More liberal migration policies would make the largest contribution to reducing world poverty (static gains from free migration $150b per year). All current aid is dwarfed by gains from migration

Fact 3 Failed promises of globalization in many parts of the world => income divergence during the last quarter century=> migration

Growth over period as function of initial (1980) income

Annual per capita growth rates MeanMedianPercentage negative “Old OECD” Middle income countries LLDC

Income divergence, Global Inequality Concept 1 inequality

The key borders today First to fourth world: Greece vs. Macedonia and Albania; Spain vs. Morocco (25km); Malaysia vs. Indonesia (3km) First to third world: US vs. Mexico; Germany vs. Poland; Austria vs. Hungary In 1960, the only key borders were Argentina and Uruguay (first) vs. Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia (third world), and Australia (first) vs. Indonesia (fourth)

Year 2002Year 1960 Approximate % of foreign workers in labor force Ratio of real GDI per capita Greece (Albanians) 7.54 to 12.2 to 1 Spain (Moroccans) to 12.3 to 1 United States (Mexicans) > to 13.6 to 1 Austria (former Yugoslavs) to 12.6 to 1 Malaysia (Indonesians) > to 11.5 to 1

Fact 4 Divergence means that location trumps the class

Rawls’ global “original position” Assume Rawls’-like veil of ignorance for all citizens of the world where citizenship and social class are “allocated” to each individual 60% of one’s income position in the world will be determined by one’s location Major difference from the situation two centuries ago (Marx would have been surprised)

Explaining person’s income position in the world Circumstan ce Ln(GDI per capita) of his/her country *** Gini of his/her country -0.33*** Circumstan ce + effort His/her social class within country +2.88** R2R

Citizenship premium. If mean income of country where you live increases by 10%, your position in the world goes up by 2 percentiles Trade-off. If through effort and luck you jump ahead 5 social classes (e.g. in the US, going from the median household per capita income of $14,000 to $22,000) this is equivalent to a citizenship premium of 60% (e.g. being born in Mexico rather than in China * ) * China is at the median (unweighted) world income

Composition of global inequality changed: from being mostly due to “class” (within-national), today it is mostly due to “location” (where people live; between-national) Source: Bourguignon and Morrisson (2002) and Milanovic (2005)

Globalization in poor countries The end of the Third World and all non-capitalist ideologies The fissure between those that did well (China, India, Indonesia => immensely important for the world because of their sizes) and most of others that did very poorly Countries at the frontline between capitalism and communism (Ethiopia, Congo, Somalia, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia) affected the most Promises of globalization did not materialize despite convergence of economic policies

Transition countries: continued output divergence despite policy convergence twoway (line EBRD_sd year) (line gdpppp_sd year, yaxis(2)), legend(off) text( "standard deviation of all > EBRD indicators") text( "standard deviation of GDI per capita")

Speculation Loss of self respect among those who failed (Africa in particular) Insistence that economic success denotes moral superiority Hobsbawn (Age of Capital): “Since success was due to personal merit, failure was clearly due to lack of personal merit. The traditional bourgeois ethic, puritan or secular, has ascribed this to moral or spiritual feebleness…” Danger of that approach noted by –none other than– Hayek: capitalism is not just; no more than the outcome of a game of soccer can be called just or unjust

Causal links between globalization and global inequality are very hard to determine

Causal effect of globalization (openness) on global inequality Channel 1. Different effect on within-national income distributions (difference between poor and rich countries; HOS and revisions) Channel 2. Different effect on growth rates of poor and rich countries (the openness premium should be higher for poor countries) Channel 3. Different effect on populous and small countries Depends on history: are populous countries rich or poor at a given point in time?

Assume globalization is good for for poor, populous countries, no effect on within-national distribution In the current constellation, India and China grow faster => global inequality ↓ (mean income convergence, lower global inequality) Decouple poor and populous; let China and India be rich No change in individual effects of gloablization; mean convergence continues but global inequality may now go ↑ Conclusion. Even if effects are known and unchanged, the outcome may differ.

What to do?

Sensible reaction Not nationalist, claustrophillic or xenophobic Take a global perspective Unchecked global capitalism produces the same outcomes that capitalism produced at national levels in Globalization I We need global social infrastructure to make globalization sustainable by mitigating its most deleterious effects

Global redistribution (GWA). Cash grants, funded by global taxes and delivered to the poor people directly Acquis humanitaire: freedom of association, child labor (ILO) etc. Less pro-rich rules of the game (intellectual property rights, rich country subsidization, changed voting in IO) Freer migration Modest redistribution and greater migration would alleviate the pressure of inequality brought about by Globalization II (both actual and perceived inequality)

Richest man’s income expressed as number of average incomes of the country and year where and when he lived In the US today, there are 21 people richer than Crassus was in Rome.

How GWA would function? Tobin tax on highly income elastic goods paid by rich countries’ residents (TT) GWA: operating costs: x percent of TT (1-x)TT of categorically targeted transfers delivered in cash to the poor people in poor countries (no repeated aid)