This multilateral organization sponsors and subsidies a wide range of programs that span specific infrastructure and industrial production projects as well as human development initiatives in the fields of universal education and public health. ... A wide variety of issues were highlighted, but I would argue that three areas featured prominently: __Safety considerations were reportedly discouraging many families from enrolling girls ...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standar...

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A sense that the world was united was generated by the establishment of the International Date Line and world time zones, together with the near global adoption of the Gregorian calendar between 1875 and 1925. ...

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