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

By World Bank Group

Book Overview

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. This title builds on and replaces the existing 'World Bank Atlas' which has been published by the World Bank for almost four decades.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821368567
• ISBN13: 9780821368565
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 9.8"

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.