| Description |
xxix, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to global issues / Vinay Bhargava -- Poverty and inequality / Punam Chuhan -- Search for stability in an integrated global financial system / Stijn Claessens -- Development aid : key to balanced global development / Punam Chuhan, Vinay Bhargava -- Debt relief, debt sustainability, and growth in low-income countries / Sona Varma -- Globalizing with their feet : the opportunities and costs of international migration / Ian Goldin -- Trade reform and the Doha development agenda / Kym Anderson, John D. Nash -- Challenge of food security : strategies to reduce global hunger and malnutrition / Kevin Cleaver, Nwanze Okidegbe, Erwin De Nys -- Diseases without borders : coping with communicable disease / Jayshree Balachander -- Securing the future through education : a tide to lift all boats / Ruth Kagia -- Hunger, malnutrition, and human development / Meera Shekar, Yi-Kyoung Lee -- Confronting climate change / Ian Noble, Robert T. Watson -- Toward a sustainable energy future / Jamal Saghir, Kyran O'Sullivan -- Calming global waters : managing a finite resource in a growing world / Claudia Sadoff, Karin Kemper, David Grey -- Toward sustainable management of world fisheries and aquaculture / Kieran Kelleher, Michael L. Weber -- Sustaining the world's forests : managing competing demands for a vital resource / World Bank Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Forests Team -- Development in the crossfire : conflict prevention and postconflict reconstruction / Kazuhide Kuroda -- Curing the cancer of corruption / Vinay Bhargava -- United Nations economic and social system : an organization in the midst of change / Oscar Avalle, Gaspard Curioni -- Role of the international financial institutions in addressing global issues / Vinay Bhargava -- Global compacts : building a better world for all / Vinay Bhargava, Asli Gurkan. |
| Subject |
International economic relations.
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World health.
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Sustainable development -- Environmental aspects.
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International organization.
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| Added Author |
Bhargava, Vinay Kumar, 1945-
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| ISBN |
0821367315 |
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9780821367315 |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2447226 |
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NLGGC 298566370 |
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NZ1 10934949 |
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AU@ 000040594496 |
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