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448 Index Germany (continued) Group of Seven (G-7), 136, 193, 214, 229, 361, colonialism of, 304; culture of, 312; 385; and globalization, 97, 108 currency of, 120; debt of, 192, 193; natural Guatemala, 44, 132, 178 resources in, 173; and regional groups, 31, Guinea, 193, 314 97; reunifi 212; and Russia, 279, Guinea Bissau, 118, 163, 164, 171, 193 cation of, 375; and wars, 67, 111; work time in, 221–22 Gulf Cooperation Council (Cooperation Ghana, 31, 82, 130, 168, 193, 361, 379 Council for the Arab States of the Gulf; Gini, Corrido, 133 CCASG), 354, 439n12 Gini coeffi 133–36, 137, 139, 140; in Gutenberg, 392 cient, Bhutan, 271–72; and Brazil, 384; and Guyana, 168, 193, 373 GNH, 270; and HDI, 164–65; in U.S., 223; weaknesses of, 134–35, 167 Hafi z of Shiraz, 57 globalization, 24, 78–126; barriers to, 83–84; Haiti, 136, 137, 163, 193, 379; democracy in, 168, and China, 231, 233, 250; and coincidence 305; vs. Dominican Republic, 314 theory, 335; and Columbus, 43; costs and Harvey, David, 15, 208 benefi 82, 89, 91, 97–107, 110, 250; HDI.See Human Development Index ts of, cultural, 89, 90, 91, 93, 101–2, 313, 347–50, health, 157–64; in Africa, 159, 160, 161; in 352, 353; defi nitions of, 78–80, 82–83; Brazil, 385; in China, 160, 162, 436n22; economic, 37, 79, 82, 256, 350; future costs of, 161–62; debate on, 15; and of, 109–17, 125–26, 343, 344, 353–54; development, 266, 267, 268; in future, 394, and growth of GDP, 67–68; history 414; and GNH, 269, 272; and HDI, 157, of, 99, 109; improvement of, 107–17; 158, 159, 270, 273; and ISI, 270; maternal, institutionalization of, 108–17, 225, 294, 274; and NGOs, 357; and population, 329, 349, 350–54; and migration, 379–80; 372, 380; and socialism, 162–63; and the and neoliberalism, 249–55; and NGOs, state, 243 356–58; in Niger, 146; and Poland, 219; and Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), 193 pragmatism, 326, 337; and public services, Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 386 115–17; and reform, 303; and regional Heritage Foundation (U.S.), 16, 167, 170–72 groupings, 354–56; and role of the state, Herzen, Alexander, 305 333; and Russia, 239; spontaneity of, Hinduism, 428n8 103–4, 108, 109, 115; third phase of, history: alternative, 42, 341; and coincidence 100–102; vs. human history, 46; vs. theory, 42, 65, 66, 211, 212, 289–90, 322, nation-states, 278–79; winners and losers 325; in decades, 128; economic, 39, 40–77, in, 104–5, 123 211, 212, 287, 289–90; and the future, 341; Globalization and Its Discontents (Stiglitz), 7 of globalization, 99, 109; human, 46–53; global warming, 15, 98, 108, 361, 363, 365–67, and institutions, 297; and Internet, 398; of 400; and Svalbard Global Seed Vault, 116 migration, 377–78; of technology, 392 GNH.See Gross National Happiness Index HIV-AIDS, 46, 55, 159, 161, 274, 376, 414 The Godfather (fi lm), 187 Holy Roman Empire, 43 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 409 hominids, 46–47 Google, 400, 407 Honduras, 36, 44, 65, 193, 314 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 212, 231 Hong Kong, 131, 162, 171, 188, 201, 250, 251, Gore, Al, 179, 280 373 Great Depression, 36, 68, 81, 99, 327 How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World Greece, 189; ancient, 50, 57, 63 (Wheen), 3–4 greenhouse gases, 179, 364–65 Hugo, Victor, 44, 71, 401 Greenland, 76 Human Development Index (HDI), 157–66, Greenpeace, 356 173, 266–67; in Bhutan, 272; and green revolution, 110. See also environment democracy, 166–67; and education, 158, Gross National Happiness Index (GNH), 269, 270, 273; and GNH, 270; and health, 157, 270, 272–73, 412 158, 159, 270, 273; and income distribution, Gross World Happiness (GWH), 412–13 164–66, 273; by nation vs. by group, 165–66 Gross World Product (GWP), 129, 412. See also Humboldt, Alexander von, 411 GDP (gross domestic product), world Hungary, 11, 44, 189, 212, 327; currency of, 118; Group of Eight (G-8), 97, 98 GDP of, 129; HDI of, 162; income

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