摘要：The debate on globalisation and poverty has elicited polemic ‘face-offs’ between theneoliberal protagonists and the anti-globalisation forces. Both theoretical camps do not onlysubscribe to the causal connection between globalisation and poverty, they critically distil the‘miseries’ and ‘fortunes’ in the interface between the two phenomena. However, beyond theparallel dynamics in the interface and given the practical realities in the developing world, thepaper dwells more on the substance rather than the divergent intellectual engagements. Thesubstance here directly relates to the general level of human hopelessness in the developingworld as a result of horrible social conditions, which have been made worse by theglobalisation wave and have persisted because of low State capability. By focusing on thesubstance, the paper concludes that globalisation can be made more pro-poor by pursuing the‘capable State’ agenda in the developing world, without also discounting the need to redressthe distortions in the global system
