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Preface | |
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A World Divided: Rich Corporations and the Poor of This Earth | |
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The World�"s Poor At the New Millennium | |
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A Case in Point: A Walk Through Klong Toey | |
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The �SWretched of the Earth⼠| |
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The Affluent of the Earth | |
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American Poverty: The Most Unequal Nation | |
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Why We Should Care: Wars and International Terrorism | |
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To the Barricades, Again: Protesting �S | |
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Globalization⼠The Exploitation of the World�"s Poor, Some Exceptions | |
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American and Japanese corporations in Thailand | |
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Lessons from Asia: The Richer and Poorer Nations of East and Southeast Asia | |
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A Brief Tour of Economic Development in Southeast Asia | |
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The Important Questions: A Preview | |
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Data Files: An Introduction to Data on World Poverty | |
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World Poverty at the 21st Century: Global Comparisons | |
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World Inequalities by Region | |
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Democracy and Good Government | |
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Data File: Poverty Reduction, Economic Development, and Democracy | |
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Health Disparities | |
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Why We Should Care: New Plagues of the 21st Century | |
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Population Problems | |
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Demographic Transition | |
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Case in Point: Fighting Population Growth and AIDS in Thailand | |
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Rapid Urbanization | |
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Empowered Women | |
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Environment | |
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World Regions: An Historical and Contemporary Introduction | |
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Africa: The Origins of Human Development and a Continent in Crisis | |
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East and Southeast Asia: A Region on the Move | |
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South Asia: Finally Some Hope | |
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Latin America: Economic Development Without Poverty Reduction | |
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Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Overcoming Communism? | |
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The Middle East: Ancient Civilizations in Conflict | |
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World Poverty: Conclusion and Next Questions | |
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The Modern World System: Explanations of Globalization and Conflict | |
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Characteristics of the Modern World System | |
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A Brief History of the Modern World System | |
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Postwar competition: the rise and fall of the Soviet Union | |
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Case in Point: Disappearing Foreign Aid | |
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The relative decline then re-emergence of the United States | |
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The Future of Core Competition | |
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American inequality, poverty, and competing forms of capitalism in the 21st century | |
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Case in Point: American and German workers compared | |
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Why We Should Care: Wal-Mart, reduced American wages, and the loss of American jobs | |
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The Global Corporate Class | |
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The Global Economy and World Poverty: Attempted Explanations | |
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A Resurgence of Cultural Explanations | |
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Why the World�"s Poor Often Remain Poor: Dependency, Uneven Development, and Economic StagnationThe class struggle within | |
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A Case in Point: Sweatshops and Child Labor in Latin America | |
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Global Corporations Can Do Harm: Some Evidence | |
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The Western Bias: Why We Often Fail to Understand | |
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The Problem of Research Method Data File: Foreign Direct Investment and Contrasting OutcomesA Rich Nation Bias | |
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The Roots of �S | |
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Asian Miracles:⼠Ancient Traditions, �S | |
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Asian Values,â¼ and Development States | |
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The Asian �S | |
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Economic Miraclesâ¼ Today | |
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The Development of Underdevelopment: Taiwan as an Exception | |
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Asian Traditions and Social Organization: Some Commonalitiesancient civilizations | |
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Data File: The Legacy of State Building and State Efficiency Todaytraditions of authority and elite responsibility�S | |
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Asian valuesâ¼ Case in Point: Japanese Corporations in Germany and Thailanddevelopment state | |
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Data File: State Effectiveness and Economic Development Today | |
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The Asian Development Model | |
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Japan''s economic developmentthe Japanese bureaucratic elite and the technical means of the development statethe Asian development model: a conclusion | |
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Colonialism and Its Aftermath: Fractured Nations, Wars, and Recovery (For Some) | |
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Case In Point: British Drug Pushers, the Opium Wars, and the Colonization of China | |
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Clearing Away Impediments: Pre-industrial Europe, North America, and Japan | |
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Overcoming Colonialism | |
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China: �Sopting out⼠of the modern world system | |
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India and China compared | |
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The Colonial Experience of East and Southeast Asia | |
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Case In Point: The Dishonor Roll of the World�"s Most Corrupt Dictators | |
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Colonialism and the Division of Africa | |
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Colonialism and the Creation of Latin America | |
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Africa: Fractured Nations and �S | |
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Predator Statesâ¼ in the Global Economy | |
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Case in Point: Colonialism and Hunger in Africa | |
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A Brief History of | |