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

Bank, World.

Atlas of Global Development : A Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges. - 4th ed. - 1 online resource (147 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Guide to the online atlas -- Classification of economies -- The Millennium Development Goals -- Rich and poor -- Measuring income -- Growth and opportunity -- Where is the wealth of nations? -- How poor is poor? -- People -- Population growth and transition -- Education -- Children at work -- Education opens doors -- Gender -- Gender equality and development -- Health -- Children under 5-struggling to survive -- Improving the health of mothers -- Communicable diseases -- Economy -- Structure of the world 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 forests -- Energy security and climate change -- Statistics -- Key indicators of development -- Ranking of economies by GNI per capita -- Definitions, sources, notes, and abbreviations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

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Gross national product -- Maps.
Population -- Statistics -- Periodicals.
Economic indicators -- Maps.
Social indicators -- Maps.
Environmental indicators -- Maps.
Economic development.
Developing countries -- Statistics.


Electronic books.

G1046.G1 -- A85 2013eb

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