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

by World Bank

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.

144 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 2007

Reviews

[Ariadna73 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Atlas of global development is a very neat and very beautiful report of the state of the art in world development in 2007. It is a great book to look at some data visualization examples; and the way con can use colors and shapes to make your point. It shows development in five different aspects: education; health; economy and relationship with the environment. It also devotes a chapter to statistics and their importance in these kinds of reports. To show the results it defines development as the increase in the output; the welfare of the people; the efficiency of the dealing with scare resources and the balance between humans and the environment. It states that development is a process that never ends (which I doubt because there always has to be a roof to touch... hasn't it?). It has a lot of graphics but it also has a bunch of compelling photographs of poor children in nations that are on the path of destitution. It shows; for example a beautiful and healthy looking kid from Bhutan whose life expectation is a maximum of 35! and on the other hand; it shows very worrying data of longer-living population that are reproducing themselves way too fast and how the human population as grown from 1.6 to 6.1 billion in only 100 years; more likely because of the endless advances in science to save lives and prevent children from dying. This leads to gigantic pollution problems; and scarce of energy supplies.

[for-much-deliberation ...]

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

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"A visual guide to global issues - easy-to-read graphical presentation with every topic presented by colorful world maps, tables, graphs, and photographs
Topics that are shaping our world - key development indicators, from poverty, population growth, and food production to climate change, foreign direct investment, and international trade
The latest, authoritative statistics - from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators database "