developing countries

A biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who from a young age was determined to make difference in the world and eventually revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending. Includes an afterword and author's sources.

Details how Adam Braun, inspired after meeting a begging young boy on the streets of India, quit his job at Bain & Company to start up the organization Pencils of Promise, which has since built more than two hundred schools around the world.

The son of legendary investor Warren Buffet relates how he set out to help nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security through his passion of farming, in forty stories of lessons learned.

Presents a selection of maps and statistical information in graphic form organized under topical headings to depict current economic and social conditions in the Third World. Provides thematic and country profiles.

Discusses the various problems faced by developing nations.t.

Twenty-four articles present opposing viewpoints on Third World problems and related issues including globalization, democracy, and U.S. assistance.