Globalization and Development: Facts and Leading Issues is the first volume of a "cross-national study" on the "interstate dispersion" of the impact (growth, inequality, and poverty) that international economic integration provides to the economies of the developing countries, along with some specific factors that determine the outcome in each nation (such as socio-economic institutions and policy packages). The book looks at the ongoing process of globalization which has involved three major currents of political, economic, and cultural integration.