Gilbert, Geoffrey

An overview of world population that describes its various aspects, such as fertility, migration, and global policy, and presents a chronology, biographical sketches of individuals involved in the issue, statistics and graphs, documents, a directory of organizations, and annotated lists of print and non-print resources.

Presents a series of essays by professional writers and scholars on the subject of world poverty and addresses issues such as immigration and open border ethics, health and education, agricultural subsidies as well as provides biographical sketches on a number of noted individuals such as Bill Gates, George McGovern, and Robert McNama.

Examines the social classes in the United States, and describes the background and history of income distribution, and discusses race, economic inequality, minimum wage, national trends, and other related topics.