- A catastrophic fire in a super-luxury hotel in Las Vegas - The flood destroys the Renaissance treasure - Mysterious suffocation of all passengers in a crowded train - A deadly heat wave is sweeping America
Original title
The world' s worst disasters of the twentieth century
Nihad Halilbegović's book is a memoir testimony of long-term professional and personal cooperation with Alija Izetbegović, the first president of independent Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In the book, economist Jeffrey Sachs presents an optimistic plan for eliminating extreme poverty by 2025. He argues that this is feasible with political will, because world wealth is growing, and poverty is not fate, but the result of inefficient systems.
The book in front of you was created during the last five years and consists of texts that, starting in May 2001, I published in Rijeka's "Novi List" as a regular weekly column under the title "Italian Dossier".