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globalization, and efforts of international University, Kingston, Canada. It draws heavily on our
organizations over the past half century, less- earlier presentations at World Congress of Sociology,
Durban, South Africa, July 23–30, 2006 and
developed countries have not been able to
International Sociological Association (ISA) Research
catch up to the more developed part of the Council Conference, at the University of Ottawa,
world, and in fact, a number of countries, May 28–30, 2004. The views expressed in this chap-
particularly in Africa, have been showing ter are the authors’ own and do not reflect those of
negative economic growth and stagnation in the institutions where they are currently employed.
health, illness, and mortality. Also, as men-
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