... of California Frank-Borge Wietzke social mobility middle class poverty inequality economic policy politics identity developing countries China India Brazil 16 Political conflicts can flare up when new, increasingly vocal lower-middle- income groups enter the political arena and when...

... & Schuster , 2015 . © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Joshua Lustig Steven Radelet developing countries Sustainable Development Goals poverty China Liberia book review democracy Developing nations have made immense...

...Anirudh Krishna For generations, this urban bias in policy making, inherited from colonial times, has stunted the growth of human capital among the vast rural populations of [developing] countries. © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California...

...Masroora Haque; Saleemul Huq Bangladesh, which is particularly exposed to the consequences of climate change and suffered two devastating cyclones in recent years, has taken a leading role … in advocating new international commitments to support countries that bear the heaviest burden of loss...

...Bruce Cumings Beijing's grabs for puny islands have alarmed and alienated smaller countries in the region. But Washington doesn't need to “pivot” to Asia–it's been in charge there for decades. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California...

... BRIC countries Fernando Henrique Cardoso Bolsa Família United States pre-salt oil ethanol Petrosal 43 Speculation abounds, both in Brazil and abroad, about the directions that Brazil will take under President Dilma Rousseff. Such curiosity is natural considering that the country...

...John Hall; Wolfgang Quaisser The historical experience of the East European countries is to dance to the tunes played by regional powers to their west and to their east. Is this just one more round, with Brussels choreographing the show now, rather than Vienna, Berlin, or Moscow? © 2001 Current...

... industrial economies rely heavily on the global commons for free natural services, such as areas to dispose of pollutants. For example, reliance on fossil fuels leads to increases in CO2 in the atmosphere, and in turn to global warming. Developing countries undergo- ing industrialization will draw...