CIAO DATE: 01/02

World Affairs

Vol. 5, Number 3 (July-September, 2001)

• Letter from the Executive Editor

   

• Empowerment of the People: A Focus

  In this issue we have taken some sterling examples of people and institutions who have made outstanding contributions towards a sustainable future.

  Interview: The Grameen Bank Experiment

  Professor Muhammad Yunus ' innovative experiment, through the Grameen Bank, has helped alleviate the poverty of millions of people in Bangladesh, by providing them with affordable credit.

  Noshir H Antia makes a case for an alternative strategy for health, Narayan S Kotvi for a greater role of women in politics, while Verghese Kurien and Mirai Chatterjee provide examples of people's movements that are silently working towards empowering the deprived sections of society.

   

  Articles

• Russia's Agricultural Strategy: Need For Institutional Transformation

  In a comprehensive analysis of the Russian agrarian sector, Alexander V Akimov highlights the importance of institutional transformation in agriculture for it to become an engine of economic growth.

• Water Not Oil: Crisis Of The Twenty-First Century

  Narottam Gaan argues that water, which is vital for life support systems, will be the cause of major conflicts in the twenty-first century.

• The Japan-Us "Alliance"? Unwanted Fault Line

  Eijiro Noda sees a shifting role for Japan in "a new pattern in international relations of partnership and non-alliance" with a stronger bonding with its Asian neighbours.

   

  Review Essay

• Meaning Of Globalisation: Groping In The Dark

  Mary C Carras examines the "vast complexities in defining, conceptualising and theorising about the process of globalisation" by different authors in today's context.

   

  Reviews

• J C Kapur

• Geetanjali Singh

• Saira Mohamed

• René Wadlow

• A Subramanyam Raju

 

Documents

1. World Conference Against Racism, Durban, September 8, 2001

2. Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People by George W Bush, President, United States of America, September 20, 2001.

3. UN Security Council Unanimously Adopts Wide Ranging Anti-Terrorism Resolution, September 28, 2001.

 

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