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How did the sharpest global slowdown in more than six decades happen, and how can recovery be made sustainable? From Crisis to Recovery traces the causes, course, and consequences of the Great Recession. The book explains how a global buildup of liquidity, coupled with poor regu…
Society at a Glance offers a concise quantitative overview of social trends and policies across the OECD. This 2009 edition includes a wide range of information on social issues - such as demography and family characteristics, employment and unemployment, poverty and inequality,…
An authoritative study of the dangers nations face today from weapons of mass destruction and the successes and failures of international nonproliferation efforts. This proliferation atlas documents with maps, charts, and graphs the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological we…
Yeltsin's Russia: myths and reality
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set an ambitious target to halve the number of people living in absolute poverty by 2015. That target may be met, but many other MDGs will likely be missed, leaving the world with a development challenge beyond what it had once hoped to fa…
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