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Building Global Infrastructure is the fourth in a series of
volumes-Patterns of Potential Human Progress-that uses the
International Futures (IFs) simulation model to explore prospects
for human development: how development appears to be unfolding
globally and locally, how we would like it to evolve, and how
better to assure that we move it in desired directions. Earlier
volumes addressed the reduction of global poverty, the advance of
global education, and the improvement of global health. Volume 4
sets out to tell the story of the future of global infrastructure.
The approach used in this book focuses on the question of whether
individual societies will be able to meet future infrastructure
demands. Related questions include the following: * What is the
range of realistically conceivable futures for infrastructure,
considering both demand and supply? * How are the demands for
infrastructure balanced with the ability to meet these demands,
thereby linking the physical and financial treatment of
infrastructure? * What are the effects of providing for
infrastructure on issues such as economic productivity and health?
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Reducing Global Poverty (Hardcover)
Barry B. Hughes, Mohammod T. Irfan, Haider Khan, Krishna B. Kumar, Dale S. Rothman, …
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R4,760
Discovery Miles 47 600
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This is the first volume in an ambitious new series-"Patterns of
Potential Human Progress"-inspired by the UN Millennium Development
Goals (MGDs) and other initiatives to improve the global condition.
The first and most fundamental of these goals-reducing poverty
worldwide-is the focus of this book. Using the large-scale computer
program called International Futures (IFs), developed over three
decades at the prestigious University of Denver Graduate School of
International Studies, this book explores the most extensive set of
forecasts of global poverty ever made-providing a wide range of
scenarios based on an authoritative array of data. It transcends
the "$1 a day" baseline measure of poverty and probes important
concepts like income poverty gaps and relative poverty. The
forecasts are long-term, looking 50 years into the future, far
beyond the 2015 date set out by the MDGs. They are geographically
rich, spanning the entire globe and drilling down to the country
level, including one of the most important global focal points,
India. The poverty forecasts in this book, and all the volumes in
the series, are fully integrated in perspective across a wide range
of human development arenas including demographics, economics,
politics, agriculture, energy, and the environment. Full of
colorful and thoughtfully designed graphs, tables, maps, and other
visual presentations of data and forecasts, this large-format
inaugural volume ensures that the "Patterns of Potential Human
Progress" series will become an indispensable resource for every
development professional, student, professor, library, and indeed,
country around the world.
This is the first volume in an ambitious new series-"Patterns of
Potential Human Progress"-inspired by the UN Millennium Development
Goals (MGDs) and other initiatives to improve the global condition.
The first and most fundamental of these goals-reducing poverty
worldwide-is the focus of this book. Using the large-scale computer
program called International Futures (IFs) developed over three
decades at the prestigious University of Denver Graduate School of
International Studies, this book explores the most extensive set of
forecasts of global poverty ever made-providing a wide range of
scenarios based on an authoritative array of data. It transcends
the "$1 a day" baseline measure of poverty and probes important
concepts like income poverty gaps and relative poverty. The
forecasts are long-term, looking 50 years into the future, far
beyond the 2015 date set out by the MDGs. They are geographically
rich, spanning the entire globe and drilling down to the country
level, including one of the most important global focal points,
India. The poverty forecasts in this book, and all the volumes in
the series, are fully integrated in perspective across a wide range
of human development arenas including demographics, economics,
politics, agriculture, energy, and the environment. Full of
colorful, thoughtfully designed graphs, tables, maps, and other
visual presentations of data and forecasts, this large-format
inaugural volume ensures that the "Patterns of Potential Human
Progress" series will become an indispensable resource for every
development professional, student, professor, library, and indeed,
country around the world.
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Improving Global Health (Hardcover)
Barry B. Hughes, Randall Kuhn, Cecilia Mosca Peterson, Dale S. Rothman, Jose Roberto Solorzano
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R3,484
R2,923
Discovery Miles 29 230
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"Improving Global Health" is the third in a series of volumes
Patterns of Potential Human Progress that uses the International
Futures (IFs) simulation model to explore prospects for human
development: how development appears to be unfolding globally and
locally, how we would like it to evolve, and how better to assure
that we move it in desired directions. Earlier volumes addressed
the reduction of global poverty and the advance of global
education. Volume 3 sets out to tell a story of possible futures
for the health of peoples across the world. Questions the volume
addresses include: What health outcomes might we expect given
current patterns of human development? What opportunities exist for
intervention and the achievement of alternate health futures? How
might improved health futures affect broader economic, social, and
political prospects of countries, regions, and the world?
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