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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 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
• urban environment
• Feeding a growing world
• 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.

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Economic indicators — Maps

Economic development — Statistics

Gross national product — Maps

Population — Statistics

Social indicators — Maps

Environmental indicators — Maps

Developing countries — Statistics

General Notes:

"A visual guide to the world's greatest challenges."--Subtitle from cover.
Includes index.
Print version cataloged as a continuing resource by Library of Congress.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 02, 2013).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

G1046.G1 W6 2013eb

ISBNs:

9780821397572 [Invalid]
9780821397589 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

896890476

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3050857 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp9964619