Subject(s): Poverty -- Developing countries -- Prevention -- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions -- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - -- Economics -- Macroeconomics -- Prevention. -- World poverty, poverty and health, education, neoclassical perspective, Washington consensus -- Aid, trade, debt and world's poor- some key controversies: Damage from agricultural subsidies, trade restrictions on poor countries, debt issues, HIPC initiatives, debt relief useless -- Special U.S issues : Right amount of foreign aid , public support foreign aid, immigration, open border ethics, drug pricing for poor nations, WTO, poverty and terrorism -- Biographical sketches -- Data and documents : Statistics on global poverty, millennium development goals, millennium challenge account, HIV/AIDS, Rome declaration on world food security 1996, undernourishment, gender equality , China and India- impressive growth, Rio declaration on environment and development 1992, debt relief under heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) initiative, Monterrey consensus 2002 -- Directory of organizations : micro credit organizations, faith based relief and development, non religious relief and development -- Selected print and nonprint resources : Monographs, UN and world bank publications