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Phillips, Jim – 1982
Designed for global education at the high school level, this document presents statistics on malnutrition, infant mortality, and illiteracy in developing nations. The statistics are compared with private and government expenditures of wealthy nations. Examples of the statistical information for developing nations are: more than 500 million people…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Expenditures, Global Approach
Williams, Sonja – 1987
This book of teaching activities is designed to address the issue of hunger and develop a sense of activism and hope among students. It encourages students to discover some of the causes and misconceptions about world hunger. The book contains eight lessons with numerous activities to allow students to study hunger and develop a broader…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Development
Virginia Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Richmond. – 1983
The living and working conditions of migrant farmworkers on the Eastern Shore of Virginia have been described as deplorable and possibly the worst in the nation. At the same time, growers in this region have complained of duplication, even triplication, of federal and state regulations designed to improve living and working conditions of these…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Federal Programs, Living Standards, Migrant Education
Download full textChandler, William U. – 1985
This report emphasizes the need for action in improving human nutrition, health and the status of women in Third World countries. Special attention is directed to improvement in child health care practices. The report advocates a strategy that meshes short term needs of desperate families with long term requirements of ecological stability and…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Developing Nations, Disease Control, Family Health
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1979
Because ill-clothed, sick, or hungry migrant children learn poorly, the Task Force has emphasized the migrant health situation in 1979. Migrant workers have a 33% shorter life expectancy, a 25% higher infant mortality rate, and a 25% higher death rate from tuberculosis and other communicable diseases than the national average. Common among…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Communicable Diseases
Knight, C. Gregory; Wilcox, R. Paul – 1976
Emphasizing a problem-solving perspective, the document investigates the world food scene. Simply defined, the world food problem is the apparent inability of the world's people to feed themselves adequately and consistently. Intended for use by college level geography instructors as they develop courses on human uses of the environment, the…
Descriptors: Depleted Resources, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Eating Habits
