Global issues for global citizens : an introduction to key development challenges / Vinay Bhargava, editor. - Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2006. - xxix, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to global issues / Poverty and inequality / The search for stability in an integrated global financial system / Development aid : key to balanced global development / Debt relief, debt sustainability, and growth in low-income countries / Globalizing with their feet : the opportunities and costs of international migration / Trade reform and the Doha development agenda / The challenge of food security : strategies to reduce global hunger and malnutrition / Diseases without borders : coping with communicable disease / Securing the future through education : a tide to lift all boats / Hunger, malnutrition, and human development / Confronting climate change / Toward sustainable energy future / Calming global waters : managing a finite resource in a growing world / Toward a sustainable management of world fisheries and aquaculture / Sustaining the world's forests : managing competing demands for a vital resource / Development in the crossfire : conflict prevention and postconflict reconstruction / Curing the cancer of corruption / The United Nations economic and social system : an organization in the midst of change / The role of the international financial institutions in addressing global issues / Global compacts : building a better world for all / Vinay Bhargava -- Punam Chuhan -- Stijn Claessens -- Punam Chuhan, Vinay Bhargava -- Sona Varma -- Ian Goldin -- Kym Anderson, John D. Nash -- Kevin Cleaver, Nwanze Okidegbe, Erwin De Nys -- Jayshree Balachander -- Ruth Kagia -- Meera Shekar, Yi-Kyoung Lee -- Ian Noble, Robert T. Watson -- Jamal Saghir, Kyran O'Sullivan -- Claudia Sadoff, Karin Kemper, David Grey -- Kieran Kelleher, Michael L. Weber -- the World Bank Enviromentally and Socially Sustainable Development Forests Team -- Kazuhide Kuroda -- Vinay Bhargava -- Oscar Avalle, Gaspard Curioni -- Vinay Bhargava -- Vinay Bhargava, Asli Gurkan.

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International economic relations.
World health.
Sustainable development--Environmental aspects.
International organization.
Relacoes económicas internacionais.
Saúde mundial.
Desenvolvimento sustentável (aspectos ambientais)
Organizacáo internacional.
Mondialisation.
Santâe mondiale.
Dâeveloppement durable--Aspect de l'environnement.
Organisation internationale.
Armoede.
Onderwijs.
Hulpprogramma's.
Natuurlijke hulpbronnen.
Changement global (Environnement)
Dâeveloppement durable
Gouvernance mondiale
Organisation internationale
Relations économiques internationales
Santé mondiale

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