This textbook offers information on world population and health, the debt crisis of the developing world, and the strengths and weaknesses of market-oriented economic reforms. It emphasizes structural adjustment and draws practical examples from South America, Asia and Africa.
Stephen Malcolm Gillis was an American academic. He served as the sixth president of Rice University in Houston, Texas, from 1993 until 2004. He was University Professor and Ervin Kenneth Zingler Professor of Economics at Rice.