Annual Editions: Developing World 10/11

by GRIFFITHS

• ISBN13: 9780078127816
• ISBN10: 0078127815
• Edition: 20th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

Summary

Annual Editions is a series of over 65 volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; and a brief overview for each section. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is the general instructor's guide for our popular Annual Editions series and is available in print (0073301906) or online. Visit www.mhcls.com for more details..

Table of Contents

Preface

Correlation Guide

Topic Guide

Internet References

Understanding the Developing World

Unit Overview

The New Face of Development

How Development Leads to Democracy: What We Know about Modernization

The Ideology of Development

Africa's Village of Dreams

The Case against the West: America and Europe in the Asian Century

Development as Poison: Rethinking the Western Model of Modernity

Political Economy and the Developing World

Unit Overview

Industrial Revolution 2.0

The Toxins Trickle Downwards, The Economist, March 14, 2009

The Poor Man's Burden

Social Justice and Global Trade

Cotton: The Huge Moral Issue

Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger

The Politics of Hunger

The New Colonialists

Power to the People

The Micromagic of Microcredit

The Coming Revolution in Africa

Conflict and Instability

Unit Overview

The End of War?

Fixing a Broken World, The Economist, January 31, 2009

The Roots of Failure in Afghanistan

Pakistan's Perilous Voyage

The Shiite "Threat" Revisited

The Most Dangerous Place in the World

Will the Kenyan Settlement Hold?

Mexico's Drug Wars Get Brutal

Dangerous Liaisons

Call in the Blue Helmets, The Economist, January 6, 2007

Political Change in the Developing World

Unit Overview

Asia's Democracy Backlash

India Held Back

Bring Me My Machine Gun

Who Will Speak for Islam?

Free at Last?, Bernard Lewis, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2009

Iran in Search of Itself

Lula's Brazil: A Rising Power, but Going Where?

An Empty Revolution: The Unfulfilled Promises of Hugo Chávez

Population, Resources, Environment, and Health

Unit Overview

Booms, Busts, and Echoes

Emerging Water Shortages

Water Warriors

Soot from Third-World Stoves Is New Target in Climate Fight

Population, Human Resources, Health, and the Environment: Getting the Balance Right

Protecting Climate Refugees: The Case for a Global Protocol

Reversal of Fortune: Why Preventing Poverty Beats Curing It

Women and Development

Unit Overview

Women's Rights as Human Rights: The Promotion of Human Rights as a Counter-Culture

Educating Girls, Unlocking Development

Education: It's Not Just about the Boys. Get Girls into School

Women in the Middle East: Progress and Backlash

Women in Developing Countries 300 Times More Likely to Die in Childbirth

Recession Hits Women in Developing Countries

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