Globalization and imbalanced development, analytical study of global issues on health, nutrition, natural and environmental resources, as well as initiations in resolving the problems of major global issues in health, nutrition, natural and environmental resources, the globalization and social and economic development, analytical study of global social issues (e.g. migration, human rights, child rights, drug and alcoholic abuses, violence against women and children, prostitution, family breakdown, ethnic and gender discrimination, corruption), analytical study of global economic issues (e.g. income inequality, free trade, labor mobility, exchange rate fluctuation, foreign investment), local and global action to resolve social and economic issues