This book analyzes the U.N. system as it functions today, stressing the economic issues that constitute most of the agenda; the New International Economic Order, and the role of transnational corporations, energy, natural resources and the reasonable U.S. initiatives and responses in these areas.
This book analyses the important political issues that dominate the media and demand the attention of political leaders in the modern world. It provides a full and comprehensible account of the most salient political issues in the world today and explains their significance in a way that is accessible to students and non-specialists alike.
There is no country on earth that might have a greater need than Indonesia to be concerned about its ocean space and resources. For centuries at a crossroad of the international trade, with geo-strategically located at the epicenter of global economy. forming the world's largest achipelago (more than 17,500 island), and possessing the greatest marine biodiversity of any region of the world, Ind…
Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development.
Contents: 1. Economics and the economy 2. Economics and development 3. Development of the regions.
In Asian Juggernaut, the revelatory and important International Bestseller by Brahma Chellaney, a renowned authority on Asia’s political and economic development offers an incisive and insightful analysis of the region’s pivotal role on the world stage. Examining the rise of China, India, and Japan as preeminent powers and their key position in the global future, Asian Juggernaut is a book …
This contents of this book: Chapter 1: Development countries and the concept of development Chapter 2: Development of the international economic order, 1450-2000 Chapter 3: Growth and stagnation: theories and experiences
Contents: 1. Introduction : Off on the wrong foot 2. Poverty remains a concern 3. Globalization does not automatically lead to convergence 4. Shifts in development paradigms 5. Decision-Making at the world bank,etc.
This publication presents the key debates that took place in the Economic and Social Council meetings on the theme of the high-level segment of 2005 "Achieving the Internationally Agreed Development Goals, Including those Contained in the Millennium Declaration, as well as Implementing the Outcomes of the Major United Nations Conferences and Summits: Progress Made, Challenges and Opportunities"…
Hazel Henderson provides a survival guide for our ride on the "tiger of change," offering new directions and expanded contexts for creating patterns of operation based on win-win models and a new planetary culture. She provides numerous examples of the new paradigm and outlines concrete steps toward it, including the use of renewable resources and chaos systems theory, the greening of social po…