Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to global issues / Vinay Bhargava -- Poverty and inequality / Punam Chuhan -- The search for stability in an integrated global financial system / Stijn Claessens -- Development aid : key to balanced global development / Punam Chuhan, Vinay Bhargava -- Debt relief, debt sustainability, and growth in low-income countries / Sona Varma -- Globalizing with their feet : the opportunities and costs of international migration / Ian Goldin -- Trade reform and the Doha development agenda / Kym Anderson, John D. Nash -- The challenge of food security : strategies to reduce global hunger and malnutrition / Kevin Cleaver, Nwanze Okidegbe, Erwin De Nys -- Diseases without borders : coping with communicable disease / Jayshree Balachander -- Securing the future through education : a tide to lift all boats / Ruth Kagia -- Hunger, malnutrition, and human development / Meera Shekar, Yi-Kyoung Lee -- Confronting climate change / Ian Noble, Robert T. Watson -- Toward sustainable energy future / Jamal Saghir, Kyran O'Sullivan -- Calming global waters : managing a finite resource in a growing world / Claudia Sadoff, Karin Kemper, David Grey -- Toward a sustainable management of world fisheries and aquaculture / Kieran Kelleher, Michael L. Weber -- Sustaining the world's forests : managing competing demands for a vital resource / the World Bank Enviromentally and Socially Sustainable Development Forests Team -- Development in the crossfire : conflict prevention and postconflict reconstruction / Kazuhide Kuroda -- Curing the cancer of corruption / Vinay Bhargava -- The United Nations economic and social system : an organization in the midst of change / Oscar Avalle, Gaspard Curioni -- The role of the international financial institutions in addressing global issues / Vinay Bhargava -- Global compacts : building a better world for all / Vinay Bhargava, Asli Gurkan.