elections; and the impact of a global calamity story - the earthquake and tsunami in South Asia. This new

in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Doing business in East Asia and the Pacific Rim -- Doing

Nicola -- A conducive context: trafficking of persons in Central Asia / Liz Kelly -- Trafficking into and

-- Asia must starve to feed the west: the rice debacle in the Philippines -- Peasant resistance to

-- South East Asia 64 -- The Middle East and North Africa 66 -- Australia's residential water rating system

and human development in asia -- Gendered labour markets and globalization in asia / , by Gita Sen

contributing authors from around the globe and entries on the media in Europe and Asia; entries covering

health of the poor in Mexico -- Controlling trachoma in Morocco -- Reducing guinea worm in Asia and sub

Asia -- Fiction.

explosion in Asia. Tracing the migration of populations and the development of hunting thousands of years

Globalization -- Economic aspects -- East Asia -- Case studies.

transition in Europe -- 11. Harmonization and transition in East Asia -- 12. The context of financial