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A web of seamless relationships is being woven across national borders with untold economic impact worldwide. As a result, this unimpeded spread of knowledge, capital, and trade is exercising a strong influence on developmental trends, economic and human, in those countries that benefit most from this expansion.

For example, in China and India, technology is contributing enormously to an economic development widely applauded and envied globally, yet at the same time, this rapid growth has engendered a potentially disastrous change in the makeup of its human population. The ratio of female-to-male births has become increasingly lopsided, a harbinger of an acute social problem caused by gender imbalance and its attendant ills.