The Global Citizen's Handbook - Facing Our World's Crises and Challenges

The Global Citizen''s Handbook contains the most recent statistics on population, economy, trade, education, health, and the environment worldwide in a colorful, easy-to-understand format with dozens of maps, graphs, tables, and photographs. Comparisons by country of life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, poverty, energy efficiency, income growth, per capita income, and aid flows are complemented by authoritative information on headline-hitting issues such as AIDS, fresh water shortages, and populations living on less than $1 a day. For all concerned citizens of the world, this is the unbiased guide to the urgent and critical issues confronting the planet today.

Product details

• Authors: World Bank, The World Bank, World Bank Group, Inc World Book
• Publisher: Collins US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2007
• EAN: 9780061243424
• ISBN: 978-0-06-124342-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: ACTIVISM & LIFESTYLE, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: POLICY, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Globalization