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What is development?
How can we compare the levels of development attained by different countries? And what does it take to make development sustainable?
This book offers no simple answers to these complex questions. Instead, the authors encourage readers to seek their own solutions by analyzing and synthesizing information on a range of critical development issues including population growth, economic growth, equity, poverty, education, health, industrialization, urbanization, privatization, trade, climate change, and more.
The book, which draws on data published by the World Bank, is addressed to teachers, students, and all those interested in exploring issues of global development.
This title is a publication of the World Bank Institute -- promoting knowledge and learning for a better world.
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Beyond Economic Growth
An Introduction to Sustainable Development Second Edition
Tatyana P. Soubbotina The World Bank Washington, D.C.
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Copyright © 2004 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/THE WORLD BANK 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433, U.S.A. All rights reserved First printing September 2000 The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this book are entirely those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this publication and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of their use. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this volume do not imply on the part of the World Bank Group any