Discusses a wide range of policy options for combating ten of the world's biggest problems: air pollution, conflicts, diseases, education, global warming, malnutrition and hunger, sanitation and clean water, trade barriers, terrorism, and women in development.
Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? 'World Development Indicators' is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 800 indicators for more than 150 economies an…
Serves as an introduction to globalization, its causes, character, consequences, and implications. Provides an assessment of how the benefits of globalization could be maximized and its ill effects minimized. The second edition takes a broader perspective giving increased covera…
Assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity, with practical solutions based on a new economic paradigm for our crowded planet.
"Indigenous peoples constitute a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. They are more likely to be poor than any other group. This book documents their socioeconomic situation, and trends over the last decade, and shows that while progress has been achieved in…
