Abstract
Globalization has affected the livelihoods of fishing communities in South Asia in several ways since the late 1950s. In this chapter we study one facet of these developments — the adoption of beach-landing fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) boats by fishing households in Tamil Nadu, India. The diffusion of this new technology, which replaces traditional wooden boats, is as much a product of ongoing globalizing trends as it is a response to distortions caused by previous waves of innovation triggered by globalization.
Highlights
Globalization has a¤ected the livelihoods of ...shing communities in south Asia in several ways over the past half century
The di¤usion of this new technology, which replaces traditional artisan wooden boats, is as much a product of ongoing globalizing trends as it is a response to distortions caused by previous waves of innovation triggered by globalization
The mean income and inequality paths for the ...rst simulation very closely follow the respective paths generated from the actual asset data, which suggests that the observed income pattern accompanying the introduction of the new technology closely resembles a situation in which all households are substantially credit-constrained
Summary
Globalization has a¤ected the livelihoods of ...shing communities in south Asia in several ways over the past half century. When we simulate the adoption process for a sample of only rich households, in contrast, the process of adoption is completed ten times as fast as observed in the actual data, implying that rich communities can enjoy the bene...t from technological innovation, and grow, considerably faster than poor ones. These ...ndings provide a micro illustration of Nissanke and Thorbecke’s (2005) point that the relationship between globalization and poverty is complex and may be non-linear.
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