Introduction

Prono bordon is the distinguished professor meritus of economics at the university of california berkeley. He has undertaken pioneering research on international trade, the political economy of development and policies in china and india. We began by discussing the role of globalization in reducing world poverty,. The main findings of his forthcoming book are a world of insecurity, democratic disenchantment in rich and poor countries. And we thereafter discussed the democracy development relationship and the china india comparison before focusing on the corruption development relationship.