This book has been written primarily for students in tertiary institutions, and also for the professional, general and inquisitive reader, who is interested in being informed about the contemporary social ills plaguing the developing world. Such problems include juvenile delinquency, crisis in education, drug abuse and the AIDS Pandemic. Others are religious intolerance, environmental degradation and female labour immobility, as well as privatization, commercialization and poverty. The authors are not only seasoned experts in their different chosen fields, and thus are armed with first hand knowledge, which is being disseminated to the world at large. The effort has been motivated by the need to provide guided material in the varied areas of socio-economic and educational domains in the developing world. The approach has been tailored in such a way that it will not only arouse and stimulate, but also captivate and sustain the interest of the reader. This authoritative book is being recommended to all who are interested in being informed about the socio-economic and educational problems bedevilling the developing world.