| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| 1 | Economic and Material Poverty in Modern America | 27 |
| 2 | The U.S. Infant Mortality Problem in an International Perspective | 43 |
| 3 | Health, Nutrition, and Literacy under Communism | 74 |
| 4 | The Decline of Public Health in Eastern Europe, 1965-1985 | 92 |
| 5 | Demographic Factors in Soviet Power | 120 |
| 6 | The CIA's Assessment of the Soviet Economy | 136 |
| 7 | Poverty in South Africa | 150 |
| 8 | Another Look at the World Food Problem | 170 |
| 9 | Investment without Growth, Industrialization without Prosperity | 197 |
| 10 | The Debt Bomb and the World's Children | 212 |
| 11 | World Population Trends and National Security | 239 |
| Notes | 271 |
| Index | 291 |
| About the Author | 303 |
| Credits | 305 |