Focus the Worst of Both Worlds : Poverty and Politics in the Balkans

By Brown, Valerie J.

Book Id: WPLBN0000229409
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 2.3 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Focus the Worst of Both Worlds : Poverty and Politics in the Balkans
Author:	Brown, Valerie J.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, United Nations., United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Disarmament Documents
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Publisher:	United Nations- Office for Disarmament Affairs (Unoda)


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Excerpt: Historically, the countries of the Balkan region obeyed the imperatives to develop heavy industry, factory farming, and militarization, all of which have led to pollution of the regions air, water, and soil by heavy metals, radioactivity, pesticides, and fertilizers. Yet the benefits of modernization and technological development, such as a higher standard of living and progressive health care, have largely passed the region by. In this sense, the countries of the Balkan region experience the worst of both worlds: they must suffer the diseases of both industrialization and rural poverty.