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007630
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Washington, D.C., Collins, 2007.
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144pDark Blue Spine
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The Atlas of Global Issues vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing the world today. Social, economic, and environmental issues that are facing the planet are presented by easy-to read, colourful world maps, tables, graphs, text and photographs. Drawing on data from the world bank's World Development Indicators, the book brings to life country comparisons of social indicators like life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, population below the poverty line and energy efficiency, as well as basic economic indicators like income growth, income per person, private capital and aid flows. 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.
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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Classification of economies
Rich and poor
People
Education
Health
Economy
Environment
Statistics
Index
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9780007243174 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 008048 | 330.90021/ATL | Main | On Shelf | General | Reference |
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020375
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.
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xiv, 170pBrown spine
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Very Short Introductions
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Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, global income differences were small, but disparities have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen shows how the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. Allen shows how the industrial revolution was Britain's path-breaking response to the challenge of globalization. Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club of rich nations, pursuing four polices--creating a national market by abolishing internal tariffs and investing in transportation, erecting an external tariff to protect their fledgling industries from British competition, creating banks to stabilize the currency and mobilize domestic savings for investment, and promoting mass education to prepare people for industrial work. Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer. A few countries--Japan, Soviet Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps China--have caught up with the West through creative responses to the technological challenge and with Big Push industrialization that has achieved rapid growth through coordinated investment
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9780199596652 Pb.
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| I01809 | 330.9/ALL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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