Encyclopedia of the Developing World

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A
Acid Precipitation
Afghanistan
African Development Bank (ADB)
African Diaspora
African Monetary Fund (AfMF)
African National Congress
Agriculture: Impact of Globalization
Agriculture: Impact of Privatization
Ahidjo, Amadou
Albania
Algeria
All-African Peoples Conference (AAPC)
Allende Gossens, Salvador
Alliance for Progress
All-India Muslim League
Amin, Idi
Amnesty International
Andean Community
Andean South America: History and Economic Development
Andean South America: International Relations
Anglican Communion
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC)
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Apartheid
Aprismo
Aquino, Benigno and Corazon
Arab Economic Unity Council
Arab Maghreb Union
Arab Nationalism
Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO)
Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973)
Arafat, Yasser
Árbenz Guzmán, Jacobo
Argentina
Arias Sanchez, Oscar
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
Armed Forces of the People
Armenia
Arms and Armaments, International Transfer of
Arms Industry
ASEAN Free Trade Association
ASEAN Mekong Basin Development Co-operation (Mekong Group)
Asian Development Bank
Asian "Economic Miracle"
Asian Monetary Fund
Asian Tigers
Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC)
Association of Caribbean States (ACS)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Aswan High Dam and Development in Egypt
Aung San Suu Kyi
Authoritarianism
Awami League
Ayub Khan, Mohammed
Azerbaijan
Azikiwe, Benjamin Nnamdi

B
Ba'ath Party
Baghdad Pact
Bahamas
Bahrain
Balfour Declaration
Balkan Wars of the 1990s
Bandung Conference (1955)
Bangladesh
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Banking
Bantustans
Barbados
Basic Human Needs
Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio
Bedouins
Begin, Menachem
Belarus
Belize
Ben Bella, Ahmed
Ben-Gurion, David
Benin
Berbers
Berlin Wall (1961-89)
Betancourt, Rómulo
Bhutan
Bhutto, Benazir
Biafra
Biodiversity Conservation
Bishop, Maurice
Black Market/Shadow Economy
Black Sea Economic Cooperation Group (BSEC)
Bolivia
Bosch, Juan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botha, P. W.
Botswana
Boumédiènne, Houari
Bourguiba, Habib
Bracero Program
Brain Drain
Brazil
Brunei
Buddhism
Bulgaria
Bunche, Ralph
Bureaucratic Authoritarianism
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha

C
Cabral, Amilcar
Cambodia
Cameroon
Camp David Accords (1979)
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Capital Flight
Capitalist Economic Model
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
CARE
Caribbean Basin Initiative
Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
Caribbean Development Bank
Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA)
Caribbean: History and Economic Development
Caribbean: International Relations
Cartels
Caste Systems
Castro, Fidel
Cayman Islands
Ceausescu, Nicolae
Central Africa: History and Economic Development
Central Africa: International Relations
Central African Republic
Central America: History and Economic Development
Central America: International Relations
Central American Common Market (CACM)
Central and Eastern Europe: History and Economic Development
Central and Eastern Europe: International Relations
Central Asia: History and Economic Development
Central Asia: International Relations
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)
Chad
Chávez, Hugo
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Kai-shek
Children and Development
Chile
China: Cultural Revolution
China, People's Republic of
Chinese Communist Party
Chinese Revolution
Christianity
Christians in the Middle East
Chuan Leekpai
Civic Education
Civil Disobedience
Civil Rights
Civil Society
Collectivism
Colombia
Colombo Plan
Colonialism: History
Colonialism: Legacies
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Commonwealth (British)
Commonwealth of Independent States: History and Economic Development
Commonwealth of Independent States: International Relations
Communist Economic Model
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Republic of the
Constitutionalism, Definition
Contras
Coptic Church (Copts)
Corruption, Governmental
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Counterinsurgency
Counter-trade
Coup d'Etat
Croatia
Cuban Revolution
Cultural Perceptions
Currency Devaluations
Currency Regimes
Cyprus
Czech Republic

D
DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era)
De Klerk, F. W.
Debt: Impact on Development
Debt: Relief Efforts
Deforestation
Democratization
Deng Xiaoping
Desertification
De-Stalinization (1953-56)
Development History and Theory
Development, Measures of
Dictatorships
Disaster Relief
Djibouti
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans Frontières
Doi Moi
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Domino Theory
Draft Declaration on Indigenous Peoples of the United Nations
Drug Trade
Drug Use
Druze
Dubcek, Alexander
Duvalier, François

E
807 Industries
East Africa: History and Economic Development
East Africa: International Relations
East African Community
East Asia: History and Economic Development
East Asia: International Relations
East Timor
Economic and Customs Union of Central Africa (ECUCA)
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)
Ecotourism
Ecuador
Education
Egypt
El Salvador
Elections
Energy: Alternative Development
Energy: Impact on Development
Entrepreneurship
Environment: Government Policies
Environmentalism
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF)
Erosion, Land
Estonia
Ethiopia
Ethnic Conflicts: Caribbean
Ethnic Conflicts: Central Africa
Ethnic Conflicts: Central and Eastern Europe
Ethnic Conflicts: Central Asia
Ethnic Conflicts: Commonwealth of Independent States
Ethnic Conflicts: East Africa
Ethnic Conflicts: East Asia
Ethnic Conflicts: Mexico and Central America
Ethnic Conflicts: Middle East
Ethnic Conflicts: North Africa
Ethnic Conflicts: Oceania
Ethnic Conflicts: Southeast Asia
Ethnic Conflicts: Southern Africa
Ethnic Conflicts: Southern Cone (Latin America)
Ethnic Conflicts: West Africa
Ethnicity: Impact on Politics and Society
Eurocentrism
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Evangelical Protestantism
Export-Oriented Economies
Extractive Industries

F
Family Planning and Structure
Fanon, Frantz
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)
Fiji
Food and Nutrition
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI)
Fox, Vicente
Francophonie Institutionnelle
Free Market Economy
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
Frei, Eduardo
FRELIMO (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique)
French Guiana
Fujimori, Alberto
Fulbright Program

G
Gabon
Gambia, The
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Mohandas
Gandhi, Rajiv
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Georgia
Ghana
Glasnost and Perestroika
Global Climate Change
Globalization: Impact on Development
Goh Chok Tong
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Great Leap Forward
Greek Orthodox Church
Green Revolution
Grenada
Group of 77
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP)
Guerrilla Warfare
Guevara, Ernesto "Che"
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Gulf Cooperation Council
Gus Dur
Guyana

H
Haile Maryam, Mengistu
Haiti
HAMAS
Hassan II, King (Morocco)
Havel, Václav
Haya de la Torre, Víctor Raúl
Health Care
Helsinki Final Act on Human Rights (1975)
Hezbollah
Hinduism
Hirschman, Albert
HIV/AIDS
Ho Chi Minh
Honduras
Hong Kong
Houphouët-Boigny, Félix
Hoxha, Enver
Human Resource Development
Human Rights as a Foreign Policy Issue
Human Rights: Definition and Violations
Humanitarian Relief Projects
Hun Sen
Hungarian Crisis of 1956
Hungary
Hussein, King of Jordan
Hussein, Saddam

I
Import Substitution Industrialization
Income Distribution
India
Indian-Pakistani Wars
Indigenous Medical Practices
Indonesia
Industrialization
Infant Mortality
Infanticide
Infectious Diseases
Intellectual Property Rights
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
International Air Transport Association (IATA)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) (World Bank)
International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
International Cocoa Organization
International Coffee Organization
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)
International Development Association (IDA)
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
International Planned Parenthood Federation
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Inter-Religious Relations
Intifada
Iran
Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
Iraq
Irrigation
Islam
Islamic Fundamentalism
Israel
Itaipú Dam

J
Jagan, Cheddi
Jamaica
Jaruzelski, Wojciech
Jiang Zemin
Jihad
Jordan
Judaism

K
Kashmir Dispute
Kaunda, Kenneth
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kenyatta, Jomo
Khama, Sir Seretse
Khmer Rouge
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khrushchev, Nikita
Kiribati
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kubitschek, Juscelino
Kurdistan
Kurds
Kuwait
Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
Kyrgyzstan

L
Laar, Mart
Labor
Lake Chad Basin Commission
Land Distribution Patterns
Landsbergis, Vytautas
Language, Influence on Development
Language, Influence on Politics
Laos
Latin American Integration Association (ALADI)
Latvia
Lebanon
Lee Kuan Yew
Legal Systems
Lesotho
Liberation Theology
Liberia
Libya
Libyan Cultural Revolution
Lithuania
Lomé Convention
Lumumba, Patrice
Luthuli, Albert

M
Macao/Macau
Macedonia
Machel, Samora
Madagascar
Maghrib Peoples
Magsaysay, Ramon
Mahathir bin Mohammed
Malan, D. F.
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malvinas/Falklands
Malvinas/Falklands War, 1982
Mandela, Nelson
Mao Zedong
Maquiladora Program
Marcos, Ferdinand
Marshall Islands, Republic of
Martinique
Marxism
Mau Mau
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mbeki, Thabo
Meir, Golda
Menchú Túm, Rigoberta
Menem, Carlos
Mental Health
Mexico: History and Economic Development
Mexico: International Relations
Micronesia, Federated States of
Middle East: History and Economic Development
Middle East: International Relations
Migration
Military and Civilian Control
Military and Development
Military and Human Rights
Miloševi?, Slobodan
Minorities/Discrimination
Mixed Economy
Modernization
Moldova
Monarchic Government
Money Laundering
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montoneros
Montserrat
Morocco
Mossaddeq, Muhammed
Mozambique
Mubarak, Hosni
Mugabe, Robert
Mujahedin
Mujibar Rahman, Sheikh
Multinational Corporations and Development
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim League
Myanmar

N
Namibia
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
Nation Building
National Action Party
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
National Liberation Army (ELN) (Colombia)
Natural Disasters
Ndi, Ni John Fru
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Neo-Colonialism
Neo-Liberalism
Nepal
Netherlands Antilles
New Economic Policy (Malaysia)
New International Economic Order (NIEO)
New Jewel Movement
New People's Army
Newly Industrialized Economies (NIEs)
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan Revolution
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Nkrumah, Kwame
Nonaligned Movement
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
Norodom Sihanouk
North Africa: History and Economic Development
North Africa: International Relations
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Northern South America: History and Economic Development
Northern South America: International Relations
Nyerere, Julius

O
Oceania: History and Economic Development
Oceania: International Relations
Okello, John
Oman
Operation Bootstrap, Puerto Rico
Organization of African Unity (OAU)
Organization of American States (OAS)
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC)
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
Oxfam

P
Pacific Islands Forum
Pahlavi, Shah Muhammed Reza
Pakistan
Palau, Republic of
Palestine
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Palestinian Diaspora
Pan-Africanism
Panama
Panama Canal Treaties, 1977
Papua New Guinea
Paracel and Spratley Islands
Paraguay
Park Systems, National
Party of the Institutionalized Revolution (PRI)
Pathet Lao
Peacekeeping Operations, Regional and International
Peasants, Impact of Development on
People's Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF)
Pérez Jiménez, Marcos
Perón, Juan Domingo
Persian Gulf War, 1991
Persian Gulf War, 2003
Peru
Petrodollars
Philippines
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
Plan Colombia
Poland
Political Culture
Pollution, Agricultural
Pollution, Industrial
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)
Popular Sectors
Population Growth: Impact on Development
Populism
Poverty: Definition and Trends
Poverty: Impact on Development
Prague Spring, 1968
Prebisch, Raúl
Private Property Rights
Privatization
Public Health
Public Sector Reform
Puerto Rico

Q
Qaddafi, Muammar
Qatar
Quality of Life: Definition

R
Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar
Rahman, Tunku Abdul
Rain Forest, Destruction of
Ramos, Fidel
Rastafarianism
Refugees
Religion
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Revolutionary Army of the People
Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR)
Rhee, Syngman
Rockefeller Foundation
Roman Catholic Church
Romania
Russia
Russian Orthodox Church
Rwanda

S
Sadat, Anwar
Salinas de Gortari, Carlos
Salvation Army
Samoa
Sanctions, Economic
Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)
Saudi Arabia
Selassie, Emperor Haile
Self-Determination
Senegal
Sénghor, Leopold
Serbia
Sex Trade/Trafficking
Seychelles
Shining Path/Sendero Luminoso
Siad Barre, Mohammed
Sierra Leone
Sikhism (Sikhs)
Silva, Luiz Inácio "Lula" da
Singapore
Single-Party States
Slovakia
Slovenia
Smaze
Social Revolution
Socialism
Socialist Economic Model
Solidarity Union
Solomon Islands
Somalia
Soros Foundations Network
South Africa
South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC)
South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO)
Southeast Asia: History and Economic Development
Southeast Asia: International Relations
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Southern Africa: History and Economic Development
Southern Africa: International Relations
Southern African Customs Union (SACU)
Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR)
Southern Cone (Latin America): History and Economic Development
Southern Cone (Latin America): International Relations
Soviet Bloc
Sri Lanka
St. Christopher and Nevis
St. Helena
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Stalin, Joseph
State-Directed Economy
Stroessner, Alfredo
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs)
Subsistence Living
Sudan
Sufism
Sukarno
Suriname
Sustainable Development
Swaziland
Syria

T
26th of July Movement
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Taliban
Tanzania
Technology: Impact on Development
Territorial Disputes
Terrorism
Thailand
Third World
Three Gorges Dam
Tibet
Tienanmen Square Massacre
Tito, Josip Broz (Marshall Tito)
Togo
Tonga
Torrijos Herrera, Omar
Totalitarianism
Touré, Sékou
Trade Policies and Development
Trading Patterns, Global
Transparency
Trinidad and Tobago
Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas
Tudjman, Franjo
Tunisia
Tupamaros
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tutu, Bishop Desmond
Tuvalu

U
Uganda
Ukraine
Ulmanis, Guntis
Um-Nyobe, Reuben
Underdevelopment
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Republic (UAR)
United Malays National Organization (UMNO)
United Nations Center for Human Settlements
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
United Nations Economic and Social Council
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
United Nations International Court of Justice
United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP)
United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
United Nations International Institute on Aging
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA)
United Nations Trusteeship Council
United Nations University (UNU)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
United States - Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Untouchables (Dalits)
Urbanization: Impact on Development
Urbanization: Impact on Environment
Uruguay
Uzbekistan

V
Vähi, Tiit
Vanuatu
Vargas, Getúlio
Velvet Revolutions
Venezuela
Verwoerd, Hendrik
Viet Minh
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Virgin Islands, British
Virgin Islands, United States
Virtual Water Trade
Visehrad Group

W
Wa??sa, Lech
War and Development
Waste Management
Water Resources and Distribution
West Africa: History and Economic Development
West Africa: International Relations
West African Monetary Union (WAMU)
White Community in Africa
Wildlife Preservation
Williams, Eric
Wojty?a, Karol (Pope John Paul II)
Women: Legal Status
Women Living under Muslim Laws (WLUML)
Women: Role in Development
World Confederation of Labor (WCL)
World Council of Churches
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
World Food Program
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Wyszyski, Cardinal Stefan

Y
Yahya Khan, Agha Mohammed
Yemen
Yugoslavia

Z
Zambia
Zapatista National Revolutionary Army (EZLN)
Zhou Enlai
Zia ul-Haq, Muhammed
Zimbabwe
Zionism

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