Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Difficult Questions, Different Answers -- Development Data -- About This Book -- How to Use The Book -- 1. What Is Development? -- Goals and Means of Development -- Sustainable Development -- 2. Comparing Levels of Development -- Gross Domestic Product and Gross National Product -- Grouping Countries by Their Level of Development -- 3. World Population Growth -- 4. Economic Growth Rates -- 5. Income Inequality -- Cross-country Comparisons of Income Inequality -- Lorenz Curves and Gini Indexes -- Costs and Benefits of Income Inequality -- 6. Poverty and Hunger -- The Nature of Poverty -- The Geography of Poverty -- The Vicious Circle of Poverty -- The Challenge of Hunger -- 7. Education -- Education and Human Capital -- Primary Education and Literacy -- Issues in Secondary and Tertiary Education -- 8. Health and Longevity -- Global Trends -- Population Age Structures -- The Burden of Infectious Disease -- Lifestyle Challenges -- 9. Industrialization and Postindustrialization -- Major Structural Shifts -- Knowledge Revolution -- Implications for Development Sustainability -- 10. Urban Air Pollution -- Particulate Air Pollution -- Airborne Lead Pollution -- 11. Public and Private Enterprises: Finding the Right Mix -- The Dilemma of Public-Private Ownership -- Is There a Trend toward Privatization? -- 12. Globalization: International Trade and Migration -- Waves of Modern Globalization -- Costs and Benefits of Free Trade -- Geography and Composition of Global Trade -- International Migration -- 13. Globalization: Foreign Investment and Foreign Aid -- Private Capital Flows -- Official Development Assistance -- 14. The Risk of Global Climate Change -- Whose Responsibility Is It? -- Will the North-South cooperation work? -- 15. Composite Indicators of Development -- "Development Diamonds".

Human Development Index -- 16. Indicators of Development Sustainability -- Composition of National Wealth -- Accumulation of National Wealth As an Indicator of Sustainable Development -- Material Throughput and Environmental Space -- Social Capital and Public Officials' Corruption -- 17. Development Goals and Strategies -- Millennium Development Goals -- The Role of National Development Policies -- Difficult Choices -- Glossary -- Annex 1: Classification of Economies by Income and Region -- Annex 2: Data Tables -- Table 1. Indicators to Chapter 1-5 -- Table 2. Indicators to Chapter 6-7 -- Table 3. Indicators to Chapter 8-9 -- Table 4. Indicators to Chapter 10-13 -- Table 5. Indicators to Chapter 14-16 -- Annex 3: Millennium Development Goals.