Subject(s): Globalization :Community development, Social planning, Social action. -- Development to adjustment : equity sidelined, positive East Asian example , social summit -- Globalisation and economic growth : trade, financial flows, liberalization and jobs -- unfavourable trends in employment, poverty and inequality -- growth and social development : targeting poor, development framework, social service and world trade, globalizing social standards, globalization with human mask -- Financing social development : Debt relief for the poorest countries, HIPC initiative, debt relief for middle-income countries, fresh departures for debt, institutions for dealing with debt, sovereign debt and bankruptcy, development assistance , donor fatigue, reorienting development assistance, 20/20 initiative, alternatives to rigid targeting, alternatives to aid, tax reforms, eroding tax base, taxing the costomer, international avoidance, pension reform, issues in social protection, mobilizing resources at the grassroot -- Fragile democracies : Governing dilemma, incomplete transitions, Latin America- military impunity, overcoming opposition in Africa, Nomenklatura of eastern Europe and central Asia, progress of political parties, president of parliament, industrialized countries, developing and transition countries, democracy and democratic alternatives, rise of technocrats, rise of central bank, technocratic finance minister, managerialism, technocracy and democracy, interested groups and social aspects, ethnicity and democratization, electoral system and ethic diversity, pluralistic parties and alternative vote, democratic process -- New mission for the public sector : Pressures for reform, fiscal stability, public expenditure targets, expenditure cuts in social sector, social effects of privatization, managerial efficiency, public accountability, capacity building, future of public sector reforms -- Calling corporations to account : From confrontation to partnership, corporate motivation, piecemeal progress, inflated claims, alternatives to confrontation, voluntary initiatives, partnership -- Civil societies : Service delivery, NGDOs, international aid system, CSO-local government partnership, community and gender tensions, civil society and international advocacy, CSOs- UN, World bank, Inter American development bank, International treaty bodies, International NGO mobilization -- Development rights for women : Women in democratization, women in politics, impact of women on government, women's NGOs, women's right, reproductive health rights, women's eduction rights, donor-driven education reforms, quality lags behind quantity, women's economic rights, work and empowerment, strategies for achieving economic rights , counter-alliance for women -- Sustainable development: Sustinable cities, local agenda 21, sustainable agriculture, sustinable water supplies, dams, new channels for irrigation , forest conservation