Format:
1 online resource (201 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
9780821386644
Content:
Published in association with Harper Collins, the completely revised and updated third edition of the Atlas of Global Development vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing our world today. '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.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Guide to the online atlas -- Classification of economies -- The Millennium Development Goals -- Rich and Poor -- Measuring income -- Growth and opportunity -- How poor is poor? -- People -- Population growth and transition -- Education -- Children at work -- Education opens doors -- Gender and development-the role of infrastructure -- Health -- Children under 5-struggling to survive -- Improving the health of mothers -- Communicable diseases -- 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 -- Where is the wealth of nations? -- Statistics -- Key indicators of development -- Ranking of economies by GNI per capita Rank -- Definitions, sources, notes, and abbreviations -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821385838
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821385838
Language:
English
Keywords:
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