Challenges of Globalization Globalization throws up many challenges. What does the wordGlobalization mean and what are the challenges? Are the Forces ofglobalization uniformly beneficial, or do they accentuateinequitable development across countries, across the Gender gap andacross present and future generations? What do Countries have to doto tap the opportunities that globalization brings? How does Indiafit into this? These are questions that have no easy answers. Butif answers are to be sought, the authors of the fifteen papers inthis book are the best people to provide them. Oktay Yenal, DeepakNayyar, I.G. Patel, Mahbub ul Haq, Ismail Seregeldin, Godwin, O.P.Obasi, Krishna Ahooja-Patel, Rakesh Mohan, Padma Desai, ToyooGyohten, Satu P. Limaye, Gilbert Etienne, John Elliott, P.N. Dharand C.K. Prahalad have some of the answers. This updated andre-edited collection of some of the Rajiv Gandhi Institutes paperswill be of Interest to anyone following the forces of globalizationand what it Means for the World and for India. About the Author: Bibek Debroy Bibek Debroy is Director (Research), Rajiv Gandhi Institute forContemporary Studies, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. He was educated inPresidency College, Calcutta, Delhi School of Economics and TrinityCollege, Cambridge, and is a professional economist. He has workedin Presidency College, Calcutta, Gokhale Institute of Politics andEconomics, Pune, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi,Department of Economic Affairs and National Council of AppliedEconomic Research, Delhi.