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Summary
Summary
Written by 27 World Bank experts, this book draws on the Bank's unique global capabilities and experience to promote an understanding of key global issues that cannot be solved by any one nation alone in an increasingly interconnected world. It describes the forces that are shaping public and private action to address these issues and highlights the Bank's own work in these areas. Covering four broad themes (global economy, global human development, global environment, and global governance), this comprehensive volume provides an introduction to today's most pressing global issues--from poverty, conflict, and migration to climate change, international trade, education, health, and corruption.With its straightforward presentation of complex topics, use of real world examples, and suggestions for further reading on-line and in the literature, this unique volume will be an invaluable resource for students in international relations, global business, public policy, international development studies, sociology as well as other interested readers.
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Choice Review
This collection of 21 essays addresses a wide range of development issues. The authors rely on their collective experience with the World Bank to engage in informed discussions of problems in specific areas relevant to the general concept of development. Economic issues, human development, environmental issues, and governance and corruption are all examined. Although the authors are experts in their respective fields, care is taken to make each essay accessible to nonpractitioners. Data presentations are easy to follow, with clear explanations of the analyses. Each chapter provides a useful bibliography as well as Web links on the particular subject. This publication's target audience is clearly the general public, and the intent is to provide interested citizens with background material as well as offer insight into the analysis required to understand contemporary development issues. The authors succeed admirably in that task. Summing Up: Recommended. Public, academic, lower-division undergraduate and up, and professional library collections. J. M. Nowakowski Muskingum College
Library Journal Review
Inspired by its recent series of lectures to college students, the World Bank has put together a collection of relevant and accessible essays by 27 of its specialists. Originally created in 1944 to help with postwar reconstruction, the bank has since expanded its mission to encompass the elimination of extreme poverty everywhere by developing experimental aid programs and issuing grants and low-interest loans to spur economic growth in developing regions. (The role of the bank in reducing extreme poverty was brought to the attention of lay readers in economist Jeffery Sachs's recent The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.) Divided into four parts-"The Global Economy," "Human Development," "Environment and Natural Resources," and "Global Governance"-this book is ambitious in scope, covering extreme poverty, pending environmental problems (e.g., climate change), conflict management strategies, and even international governance, with a special focus on the bank's own philosophy and its role in helping to solve these difficult problems. Best suited to larger public or academic libraries.-April Younglove, Linfield Coll. Lib., Portland (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| About the Contributors | p. xix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
| Abbreviations | p. xxvii |
| 1 Introduction to Global Issues | p. 1 |
| Part 1 The Global Economy | p. 29 |
| 2 Poverty and Inequality | p. 31 |
| 3 The Search for Stability in an Integrated Global Financial System | p. 51 |
| 4 Development Aid: Key to Balanced Global Development | p. 71 |
| 5 Debt Relief, Debt Sustainability, and Growth in Low-Income Countries | p. 91 |
| 6 Globalizing with their Feet: The Opportunities and Costs of International Migration | p. 105 |
| 7 Trade Reform and the DOHA Development Agenda | p. 123 |
| 8 The Challenge of Food Security: Strategies to Reduce Global Hunger and Malnutrition | p. 145 |
| Part 2 Human Development | p. 165 |
| 9 Diseases Without Borders: Coping with Communicable Disease | p. 167 |
| 10 Securing the Future Through Education: A Tide to Lift All Boats | p. 187 |
| 11 Hunger, Malnutrition, and Human Development | p. 201 |
| Part 3 Environment and Natural Resources | p. 217 |
| 12 Confronting Climate Change | p. 219 |
| 13 Toward a Sustainable Energy Future | p. 245 |
| 14 Calming Global Waters: Managing a Finite Resource in a Growing World | p. 265 |
| 15 Toward Sustainable Management of World Fisheries and Aquaculture | p. 285 |
| 16 Sustaining the World's Forests: Managing Competing Demands for a Vital Resource | p. 305 |
| Part 4 Global Governance | p. 325 |
| 17 Development in the Crossfire: Conflict Prevention and Postconflict Reconstruction | p. 327 |
| 18 Curing the Cancer of Corruption | p. 341 |
| 19 The United Nations Economic and Social System: An Organization in the Midst of Change | p. 371 |
| 20 The Role of the International Financial Institutions in Addressing Global Issues | p. 393 |
| 21 Global Compacts: Building a Better World for All | p. 411 |
| Index | p. 435 |
