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TITLE |
Contemporary readings in globalization / editor Scott R. Sernau. |
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IMPRINT |
Thousand Oaks : Pine Forge Press, 2008. |
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DESCRIPTION |
xiii, 226 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
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NOTE |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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CONTENT NOTE |
A changing world -- Awakening giants, feet of clay / Pranab Bardhan -- The Wal-Mart you don't know / Charles Fishman -- The radical thesis on globalization and the case of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez / Steve Ellner -- A coffee connoisseur on a mission / Michaele Weissman -- The great turning: from empire to earth community / David Korten -- Inequality and poverty -- Always with us: Jeffrey Sachs's plan to eliminate poverty / John Cassidy -- Born into bondage / Paul Raffaele -- Pulling rickshaws in the city of Dhaka / Sharifa Begum and Binayak Sen -- The good samaritans: Melinda Gates, Bono, and Bill Gates / Nancy Gibbs -- Violencia femicida: violence against women and Mexico's structural crisis / Mercedes Olivera -- How one company brought hope to the poor / Marco Visscher -- Education -- The right to education in a globalized world / Ronald Lindahl -- Breaking down notions of us and the. |
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SUBJECT |
Globalization -- Social aspects. |
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SUBJECT |
Globalization. |
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SUBJECT |
Poverty. |
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DISCIPLINE |
Liberal Studies. |
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OTHER AUTHOR |
Sernau, Scott. edt. |
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ISBN |
9781412944717. |