Global issues for global citizens
Subtitle: an introduction to key development challenges
By: Vinay Bhargava, editor
Contributors: Bhargava, Vinay Kumar, 1945-
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780821367315; 9780821367322
Subjects: International economic relations; World health; Sustainable development -- Environmental aspects; International organization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction to global issues -- Vinay Bhargava; title: Poverty and inequality -- Puman Chuhan; title: Search for stability in an integrated global financial system -- Stijn Claessens; title: Development aid : key to balanced global development -- Putman Chuhan, Vinay Bhargava; title: Debt relief, debt sustainability, and growth in low-income countries -- Sona Varma; title: Globalizing with their feet, the opportunities and costs of international migration -- Ian Goldin; title: Trade reform and the Doha development agenda -- Kym Anderson, John D. Nash; title: Challenge of food security : strategies to reduce global hunger and malnutrition -- Kevin Cleaver, Nwanze Ikidegbe, Erwin De Nys; title: Diseases  without borders : coping with communicable disease -- Jayshree Balachander; title: Securing the future through education : a tide to lift all boats -- Ruth Kagia; title: Hunger, malnutrition, and human development -- Meera Shekar, Y-Kyoung Lee; title: Confronting climate change -- Ian Noble, Robert T. Watson; title: Toward a sustainable energy future -- Jamal Saghir, Kyran O'Sullivan; title: y Calming global waters : managing a finite resource in a growing world -- Claudia Sadoff, Karin Kemper, David Grey; title: Toward a sustainable management of world fisheries and aquaculture -- Kieran Kelleher, Michael L. Weber; title: Sustaining the world's forests : managing competing demands for a vital resource -- by the World Bank Enviromentally and Socially Sustainable Development Forests Team; title: Development in the crossfire : conflict prevention and postconflict reconstruction -- Kazuhie Kuroda; title: Curing the cancer of corruption -- Vinay Bhargava; title: United States economic and social system : an organization in the midst of change -- Oscar Avalle, Gaspard Curioni; title: Role of the international financial institutions in addressing global issues -- Vinay Bhargava; title: Global compacts : building a better world for all-- Vinay Bhargava, Asli Gurkan