Atlas of Global Development: A Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges (World Bank Atlas)

By World Bank Group

Book Overview

Published in association with Harper Collins, the completely revised and updated second edition of the Atlas of Global Development vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing our world today. Keeping abreast of a changing world, new topics have been added including child employment, internet use, foreign direct investment, food production, and energy flows. Rich and poor Measuring income Growth and opportunity How poor is poor? People Global trends in population Education Education opens doors Children at work Gender and development Health Children under five--struggling to survive Improving the health of mothers Communicable diseases--too little progress Economy Structure of the world's economy Governance Infrastructure for development Investment for growth The integrating world People on the move Aid for development External debt Environment The urban environment Feeding a growing world A thirsty planet gets thirstier Protecting the environment Energy security and climate change Statistics Key indicators of development Ranking of economies by GNI per capita The need for statistics Millennium Development Goals, targets and indicators 'This is an excellent, up-to-date source book which will be invaluable for students of, and staff teaching, higher levels of geography .... a clear, concise, easily-accessible and well-illustrated volume.' - Geographical Association, United Kingdom

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821376039
• ISBN13: 9780821376034
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

concise and without the usual political rethoric

Not much to say in the face of facts, just watch, understand and learn. Certainly, it may not get 5 stars as a coffee table showoff book. But if you are not getting the book for idle reasons, but because you need to know, in order to make decisions, it does deserve its 5 stars. If you expend the time to understand what the information presented means, you get access to information that would be limited to large multinational corporations and governments without the worldbank publishing these books.