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

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Author: World Bank Group

ISBN-10: 0821376039

ISBN-13: 9780821376034

Category: Economic Conditions

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\...

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Published in association with Harper Collins, the Atlas of Global Development vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing our world today. Social, economic, and environmental issues that are facing the planet are presented by easy-to read, colorful world maps, tables, graphs, text and photographs. Drawing on data from the World Bank's authoritative World Development Indicators, the book brings to life country comparisons of social indicators like life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, population, growth, poverty and energy efficiency. Issues that have been hitting the headlines such as AIDS, population living below $1 a day, freshwater, trade are presented giving an unbiased view of the state of the world we live in.