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
