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Strategies for Sustainable Development
Pages 56-60

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... OBJECTIVES • To cope with threats to peace, stability, and the well-being of Americans and people throughout the world. • To constructively address the pollution of the seas and the air, overburdened cities, rural poverty, economic migration, oppression of minorities and women, and ethnic and religious hostilities.
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From page 57...
... Successful development creates new markets for exports and promotes economic growth in the United States, and America's poor increasingly benefit from development methods that have been pioneered abroad.
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From page 58...
... -- Building democracy by focusing on problems such as human rights abuses, lack of experience of democratic institutions, and disenfranchisement of women and minorities, and by concentrating on building local democratic capacities and on appropriate technologies that can be maintained locally. -- Stabilizing world population growth and protecting human health by concentrating population and health programs in two types of countries: those that contribute the most to the global population and health problems and those where population and health conditions impede sustainable development.
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From page 59...
... When sustainable development is the goal, the focus moves from projects to the web of human relationships affected by those projects. Given its commitment to sustainable development, USAID sees the fundamental building block as integrated country strategies that account for the totality of development problems confronting the society.
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  • world population
  • disaster relief
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  • addressing environmental
  • human rights
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  • environmental degradation
  • local empowerment
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  • transitional countries
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