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	World Revolution : The State of the World (Brief Version)
		An estimated 27 million people are enslaved around the world, including an estimated 20 million people held in bonded labour (forced to work in order to pay off a debt, also known as 'debt bondage')..
		The combined wealth of the world's richest 300 individuals is equal to the total annual income of 45% of the world's population.
		The world's 3 wealthiest families have a combined wealth equal to the annual income of 600 million of the world's people.
	www.worldrevolution.org /projects/globalissuesoverview/overview2/BriefOverview.htm (1422 words)

	The State of the World: Assessing Global Sustainability
		That, however, is not going to be enough, because the world, the climate, the ecosystems, and the dying people are not reading what we are saying or counting the number of speeches we give.
		The way in which the world economy is pulled by market forces depends on geography, ecology, the conditions of life, the levels of education, the burdens of disease, the nature of governance, and so forth.
		The latter is due to the ironic but profound fact that the poorest places in the world have the highest population growth rates because impoverished people, whose children die in large numbers, compensate by fertility rates that are also the highest in the world.
	www.state.gov /s/p/of/proc/tr/13286.htm (10158 words)

	The State of the World? It is on the Brink of Disaster
		The dryland regions of the world, which account for 41 per cent of the earth's land surface, have been particularly badly damaged and yet this is where the human population has grown most rapidly during the 1990s.
		Even if slow and inexorable degradation does not lead to total environmental collapse, the poorest people of the world are still going to suffer the most, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, which drew on 22 national science academies from around the world.
		Dr Reid said that the authors of the assessment were most worried about the state of the earth's drylands - an area covering 41 per cent of the land surface and home to a total of two billion people, many of them the poorest in the world.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0330-04.htm (2338 words)

	The state of the world? It is on the brink of disaster
		The dryland regions of the world, which account for 41 per cent of the earth's land surface, have been particularly badly damaged and yet this is where the human population has grown most rapidly during the 1990s.
		The distribution of species across the world is becoming more homogenous as some unique animals and plants die out and other, alien species are introduced into areas in which they would not normally live, often with devastating impact.
		Dr Reid said that the authors of the assessment were most worried about the state of the earth's drylands - an area covering 41 per cent of the land surface and home to a total of two billion people, many of them the poorest in the world.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/033105_world_stories.shtml (2243 words)

	State of the World Forum: Press Release
		While some people, particularly in the developed world, have enjoyed economic, educational and cultural gains from globalization, many others who are poor or live in the developing world have been left behind and are becoming increasingly marginalized.
		The State of the World Forum analyzed scores of trends and projections compiled by the United Nations and other agencies in economic development, international trade, communications, culture, labor, environment, health, human development and religion.
		Growth in trade notwithstanding, however, the current performance of the world economy is due primarily to the record expansion in the U.S. The strong U.S. economy in the second half of the 1990s only raised the average world growth rate for the decade to three percent.
	www.worldforum.org /resources/releases/globalpace.html (2574 words)

	Slow economic recovery forecast - The State of the World UN Chronicle - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The gross world product IGWPI is estimated to have grown by 1.7 per cent in 2002, only marginally better than the previous year, which was the weakest in a decade.
		The forecast for world trade growth is 6 per cent for 2003, compared to 2 per cent in 2002 and a decline in 2001.
		World inflows of FDI amounted to $735 billion, of which $503 billion went to developed economies, $205 billion to developing economies, and the remaining $27 billion to economies in transition of Central and Eastern Europe.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1309/is_2_40/ai_105657563 (710 words)

	Appleseed D6: The State of the World: 2127 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The world is 'ruled' by Aegis, or Central Management Bureau, based on the artificial island of Olympus.
		The southern states formed Imperial Americana, a rightwing republic with a conservative desire to return to the days when the USA spoke loudly and carried a big stick (this has put them on uneasy terms at best with Olympus).
		The former northern states, nervous of the annexed Canadian lands of the USSR to the north and the good ol' boys to the south allied themselves with the USSR, forming the left wing US-Soviet Alliance (USSA).
	appleseedd6.tripod.com /State.html (1675 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		VATICAN CITY, JAN. 10, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address John Paul II delivered today to the members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, on the occasion of the traditional audience at the start of the New Year.
		In my Message for this year's World Day of Peace, I called the attention of the Catholic faithful and of all men and women of good will to the exhortation of the Apostle Paul: "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good": "vince in bono malum" (Romans 12:21).
		Yet the statistics on world hunger are dramatic: hundreds of millions of human beings are suffering from grave malnutrition, and each year millions of children die of hunger or its effects.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=64490 (1973 words)

	What Is the State of the World
		Once again the WorldWatch Institute has released its widely read State of the World report which was quickly attacked by the CATO Institute's Jerry Taylor.
		According to Taylor, "The report's findings are, oddly enough, always the same: the state of the world is dire and economic and environmental collapse is inevitable unless we undertake radical social change."
		For 15 years, the State of the World reports have predicted famine, resource exhaustion and environmental collapse on the near horizon.
	www.overpopulation.com /articles/1999/000006.html (384 words)

	The State of the World
		Suicide bombing has become almost an everyday occurrence on the world scene, and rape and robberies have become so numerous and common that reporting them is not worth the paper on which to print the stories.
		The state of the world can be painted any which way the spin makers want but those who have eyes to see perceive the deception.
		All around the world we are seeing a steady slide in the quality of life for children with them suffering from increased feelings of isolation, withdrawal from the world, unhappiness, anxiousness, depression, attention deficits, learning disabilities, and deep increases in aggressiveness.
	www.congregator.net /medicalnews/sircus/mn030103.html (987 words)

	The State of the World according to Gorbachev
		The State of the World according to Gorbachev
		For more than a decade, his World Core Curriculum has defined education and steered our children toward global citizenship, earth-centered beliefs, socialist values, and the collective mindset which is becoming a requirement for the 21st century workforce.
		Like their leaders, the thirty-four youths from around the world listened to speakers, researched UN data, and used the Hegelian dialectic process to synthesize individual views and reach consensus.
	www.crossroad.to /text/articles/tstotw1196.html (3217 words)

	A new look at the State of the World
		Ten years after the Rio Earth Summit, world leaders are preparing for the United Nation's World Summit on Sustainable Development to take place in September 2002 in Johannesburg.
		In 1800, world population totaled 1 billion; In 1900, 1.6 billion; in 2000, 6.1 billion.
		About one third of the world lives in countries that find it impossible to meet all their water needs.
	salt.claretianpubs.org /stats/2002/02/sh0202.html (946 words)

	The State of the World's Children 1998
		The State of the World's Children 1998 report details the scale of the loss and the steps being taken to stem it.
		Sentinels of progress are lighting the way: Nearly 60 per cent of the world's salt is now iodized, and millions of children every year are spared mental retardation as a result.
		The world has the obligation to protect that right, building on both the great experience gained and the scientific knowledge achieved.
	www.unicef.org /sowc98 (298 words)

	ZNet Commentary
		According to the Report, in developing countries nearly 1.3 billion people do not have access to clean water, one in seven children of primary school age is out of school, 840 million people are malnourished, and an estimated 1.3 billion people live on incomes of less than $1 a day.
		The assets of the world's three richest people, notes the Human Development Report, are more than the combined GNP of all least developed countries on the planet.
		For example, as the Report points out, for much of human history care-giving -- attending to the young, the old, the sick, and the rest of us -- was performed by women outside the market, based on a gender division of labor and female subordination.
	www.zmag.org /zsustainers/zdaily/1999-09/14shalom.htm (2334 words)

	Your Opinion: The State of the World - SciForums.com
		What about the state of the world, I mostly get the impression that I am surrounded by weak minded, spineless, unreasonable, shallow and enslaved people that do not have a concept of their own demise.
		The world, despite impressions from the media, is more peaceful on average than it ever has been in the past.
		Although the world is occasionally plagued by savage terrorism, it is expected to recover in the coming decades.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=41251 (741 words)

	I. The State of the World and America's Global Role: Opinion Leaders Turn Cautious, Public Looks Homeward
		As dissatisfied as Americans are with things at home, they hold an even more negative opinion of the state of the world.
		Public views of global conditions are typically more negative than opinions of the state of the nation; even so, just 16% say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the world, down from 21% in July 2004.
		State and local government officials and news media leaders are also substantially more likely to say that America should be no more assertive in world affairs than other leading nations.
	people-press.org /reports/display.php3?PageID=1017 (1776 words)

	NI Issue 287: State of the World Report
		At the joint meeting of the World Bank and the IMF in September new ground was indeed broken.
		The World Bank is the development lender: as such it is responsible for the projects it approves and has to receive the criticism of the people its policies it affects.
		The struggling economies of the developing world are being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a 'free-trade' global economy in which only the fittest will survive and the fittest these days are almost inevitably the transnational corporations.
	www.newint.org /issue287/keynote.html (4399 words)

	The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2007
		Their ambitions are global, and it makes a lot more great-power sense to tackle the world shoulder-to-shoulder than it does to try to divvy up Asia.
		It ate the state system so comprehensively that there are big scary gaps in the planet with no states at all.
		And for the undernourished poorest of the world's poor, the Swedish model or the way we live in the USA seem distant and unattainable.
	www.well.com /conf/inkwell.vue/topics/289/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html (5537 words)

	Art De Vany: The State of the World
		A remarkable compendium of inform-ation at odds with the present fashionable pessimism, Goklany’s The Improving State of the World, published by the Cato Institute, reveals that, contrary to popular belief, it is the poorest who are enjoying the most dramatic rise in living standards.
		The number of people subsisting on $1 a day has declined from 16 per cent of the world population in the late 1970s to 6 per cent today, while those living on $2 a day dropped from 39 per cent to 18 per cent.
		In 1820, 84 per cent of the world’s population lived in absolute poverty; today this is down to about a fifth.
	www.arthurdevany.com /2006/11/the_state_of_th.html (1436 words)

	The State of the World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The State of the World is a book published annually since 1984 by the Worldwatch Institute.
		Yet it is also criticised for citing short-term trends as portending disaster, which does not come to pass as the long-term trend is decidedly benign.
		State of the World 2004 Special Focus: The Consumer Society ISBN 0-393-32539-3
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_State_of_the_World (175 words)

	97 Conference: The State of the World and the Region
		The State of the World and the Region
		The State of the World reports from the Worldwatch Institute are the foremost source of information on the global environment.
		Eight countries together include 56% of the world's population, 59% of its economic output, 53% of world's forested area, and 58% of the carbon emissions.
	www.scced.org /sccedinfo/97conf.html (4034 words)

	UN Chronicle \| The State of the World: Slow Economic Recovery Forecast
		The gross world product (GWP) is estimated to have grown by 1.7 per cent in 2002, only marginally better than the previous year, which was the weakest in a decade.
		The United States remained the world's largest investor, with countries of the European Union as its main trading partners and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners also benefiting from their special relationship.
		The United States remains the locomotive of international economic growth, but its recovery is expected to be anaemic, thus its burgeoning trade and government deficits and the declining value of the dollar pose downside risks of global proportions.
	www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue2/0203p68.html (1249 words)

	Dear President Bush
		Without adequate changes to allow the world to function as a unified network of federated entities the world is in for more of the disturbing events we have faced.
		The abundance of opinion in the world will temper the will of the world and reduce the amount of wandering after false targets that dissipate the constructive energy in the minds and brains of the people of the world.
		The religions of the world like to claim this realm for their own but the fact of the matter is it is the heritage of everything that exist and that which is non existent.
	www.geocities.com /loua30012 (2386 words)

	State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future \| Worldwatch Institute
		In 2008, half of the Earth’s population will live in urban areas, marking the first time in history that humans are an urban species.
		State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future examines changes in the ways cities are managed, built, and lived in that could tip the balance towards a healthier and more peaceful urban future.
		The PDF version(s) of State of the World 2007 include "Geotag" links to satellite photos with additional information for twenty six locations around the globe.
	www.worldwatch.org /node/4752 (295 words)

	Terror, Love, and the State of the World
		It must also work to build a world of international cooperation, a world where no part of the greater human family is left out or marginalized.
		From the outset, his administration angered and alienated the world community by disengaging from treaties attempting to deal with global warming, nuclear disarmament, population control, trafficking in small arms, and chemical and biological weapons, to name just a few.
		We'll know we're upholding the human spirit when the power we seek is the ability to nurture and befriend, rather than to conquer and subjugate; and when the success we pursue is one in which all beings share because it is founded on reverence for life.
	www.peterussell.com /WTC/JRobbins.php (2774 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The state of the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		America cannot produce enough wealth to solve all of the problems and ills of the rest of the world.
		The only place in Africa that has witnessed a dramatic decrease in AIDS is Uganda, where the government took the opposite approach and promoted the concepts of abstinence and fidelity.
		As a result, the country has witnessed a 75 percent decline in HIV prevalence among the 15-19 age group, 60 percent in the 20-24 group, and a 54 percent decline overall.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36678 (700 words)

	From the Rankin file: The state of the world
		Whether you have been in the 21st century for the past year or believe that all the hype welcoming the year 2000 was premature, there is no question that we have now crossed the threshold of a new century.
		Without the Cold War standoff between global powers advocating adversarial ideologies, the world is being torn apart by regional conflagrations that proliferate suffering, devastation and death.
		At the end of World War II, Southern Baptists, along with other Americans, were confronted with a hurting world devastated by the war.
	archives.tconline.org /Trends/archive/Jan01_rankin.html (598 words)

	Youth and the State of the World
		In 1995, the UN General Assembly adopted the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, setting forth a global framework to address key issues related to youth and reflecting a dialogue ongoing since the 1960s.
		Reflecting these themes, the World Programme of Action for Youth outlines 10 priority areas of concern for young people: education, employment, hunger and poverty, health, environment, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, leisure time activities, girls and young women, and participation.
		The number of youth between the ages of 15 and 24 is 1.1 billion; youth constitute 18 percent of the global population.
	www.advocatesforyouth.org /publications/factsheet/fsstateworld.htm (1588 words)

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