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Ismail Serageldin
Afaf Mahfouz
Editors

An Associated Event of the
Third Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development
co-sponsored by the
Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations and the
World Bank and held at the World Bank
Washington, D.C.
October 5, 1995

Environmentally Sustainable Development Proceedings Series No. 13
The World Bank, Washington, D.C.

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This report has been prepared by the staff of the World Bank. The judgments expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Executive Directors or of the governments they represent.

Cover design from The Arab City: Its Character and Islamic Cultural Heritage, edited by Ismail Serageldin and Samir El-Sadek.

Ismail Serageldin is vice president for Environmentally Sustainable Development at the World Bank. Afaf Mahfouz is first vice president of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGO) and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The self and the other: sustainability and self-empowerment/Ismail Serageldin and Afaf Mahfouz, editors. p. cm.-(Environmentally sustainable development proceedings series; no. 13)

"An associated event of the third annual Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development, co-sponsored by the Conference of NonGovernmental Organizations, and held at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., October 5, 1995."

ISBN 0-8213-3714-9

1. Sustainable development-Developing countries-Congresses.
2. Nurturing behavior-Developing countries-Congresses.
I. Serageldin, Ismail, 1944 .
II. Mahfouz, Afaf M.
III. World Bank.
IV. International Conference on Environmentally Sustainable

Development (3rd: 1995: World Bank) IV. Series.
HC59.72.E5S45 1996
338.9-dc20 96-34711
CIP

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