| Summary: | Explores regional avenues for solving growing problems of overpopulation and poverty and the resulting violence, crime, and environmental degradation in developing countries. Among the 25 topics are the World Bank's urban policy, an implementing framework for sustainable development, basic processes of regional economic development in China, export-led industrialization in Korea, integrated development of small and medium towns in India, linking pollution and macroeconomic variables, urbanization in Nigeria, the African-Asian colonial connection, the Mexican environment, trade and conflict in Turkey, and the eastern Amazon. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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