Table of Contents

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; Aswan High Dam and Development in Egypt; Aung San Suu Kyi; Authoritarianism; Awami League (Middle East); Ayub Khan, Mohammed; Azerbaijan; Azikiwe, Benjamin Nnamdi; Baath 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, Fulgencio; Bedouins; Begin, Menachem; Belarus; Belize; Ben Bella, Ahmed; Ben-Gurion, David; Benin; Berbers; Berlin Wall (1961-89); Betancourt, Romulo; Bhutan; Bhutto, Benazir; Biafra; Bi-lateral vs. Regional Development Cooperation; Biodiversity Conservation; Bishop, Maurice; Black Market/Shadow Economy; Black Sea Economic Cooperation Group (BSEC); Bolivia; Bosch, Juan; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botha, P.W; Botswana; Boumedienne, Houari; Bourguiba, Habib; Bracero Program; Brain Drain; Brazil; Brunei; Buddhism; Bulgaria; Bureaucratic-Authoritarian Regimes; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha; 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 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 Monetary Fund; Central African Republic; Central America: History and Economic Development; Central America: International Relations; Central American Common Market (CACM); Central American Free Trade Agreement; 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; Chavez, Hugo; Chiang Ching-kuo; Chiang Kai-shek; Children and Development; Children in Crisis; Chile; China, People's Republic of; China: Cultural Revolution; Chinese Communist Party; Chinese Revolution; Christianity; Christians in the Middle East; Chuan Leekpai; Civic Action; Civic Education; Civil Disobedience; Civil Rights; Civil Society; Clientelism; 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; Communication Systems: Impact on Development; Communist Economic Model; Comoros; Congo Democratic Republic; Congo Republic; Constitutionalism, Definition; Contras; Coptic Church (Copts); Corruption, Governmental; Costa Rica; Cote d'Ivoire; Counterinsurgency; Counterinsurgency; Counter-trade; Coup d'Etat; Croatia; Cuba; Cuban Revolution; Cultural Perceptions; Currency Devaluations; Currency Exchange; Currency Regimes; Cyprus; Czech Republic; da Silva, Luiz Inacio "Lula"; DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era); De Klerk, F.W; Debt: Impact on Development; Debt: Relief Efforts; Deforestation; Democratization; Demographic Trends; Deng Xiaoping; Desertification; De-Stalinization (1953-56); Development History and Theory; Development, Measures of; Dictatorships; Disaster Relief; Djibouti; Doctors Without Borders/Medecins sans Frontieres; Doi Moi; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Domino Theory; Draft Declaration on Indigenous Peoples of the United Nations; Drug Trade; Drug Use; Drugs: Impact on Developing Nations; Druze; Dubcek, Alexander; Duvalier, Francois; East Africa: History and Economic Development; East Africa: International Relations; East African Community; East African Development Bank (EADB); East Asia: History and Economic Development; East Asia: International Relations; East Timor

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