CONTENTS:- 1. Democracy and the market economy; 2. Democracy and poverty: Are thy interlinked?; 3. City Politics: A voice for the poor; 4. A Nuclear weapon free world: That dream must become reality; 5. Nuclear arms race on the subcontinent; 6. A crucial encounter; 7. A universal responsibility; 8. Science to what purpose?; 9. The fabric of peace; 10. Trading towards peace; 11. Peace and poverty; 12. Free trade as peacemaker: The benefits of an open world trading system; 13. The end of the Old order: No guarantee for peace and prosperity; 14. One battle after another; 15. High Court Trade growth Vs. Output: WTO sees link to globalization; 16. Rural poverty in India; 17. Development: The third way; 18. Consuming the future; 19. The population challenge; 20. Population growth and jobs; 21. Opening markets for agriculture; 22. Market access: Eliminating barriers that impede trade; 23. Richer or poorer?; 24. Tapping the market: Can private enterprise supply water to the poor; 25. Give developing countries a more favourable Deal: An assessment of the world trade conference in Doha; 26. Literacy gaining too slowly; 27. The WTO and the developing countries; 28. The dematerialization of the world economy; 29. Crisis and New orientation of development policy; 30. A new world order fro whom?;
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For peace lovers it was a strange and bewildering sight: people dancing and cheering in the streets of New Delhi and Islamabad because their governments had exploded an atomic bomb, politicians bragging about the nuclear capabilities of their countries, the press going wild over the achievement s of their scientific institutions. Achievements? In Europe, people had lived for decades under the threat of a nuclear holocaust; they had danced and cheered when the cold war ended. Now another threat of nuclear war, this time between two-of the most populous, but also the most impoverished nations of the world? How could anybody be happy about the news of the successful nuclear tests? Wasn't it absurd that the masses were cheering when their governments were spending the little money they had on the military and on expensive atomic gadgets instead of combating poverty in their countries?
