The World Guide : a view from the south
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog8926
- Publication Date
- c2005
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries
- Call Number
- HA 155 T5 2005
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Publisher
- New Internationalist Publications
- Publication Date
- c2005
- Physical Description
- 624 p. : ill., maps ; 28 x 19.5 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- Editor-in-chief: Roberto Bissio.
- "Contents include: Up-to-the-minute information on over 200 countries. New In Focus box on environmental challenges, women's rights, and minorities. 25 new reports on global issues such as genetic engineering, education, sweatshops in Latin America, HIV/AIDS, climate change, water, the UN Millennium Development Goals, democracy in Africa, the Christian Right in the US, and the 'digital divide' in new technology. Latest UN statistics". -- front jacket blurb.
- Contents divided into three main sections: [Introductory Material] -- I : Global issues -- II : Countries of the world -- III : The world in figures.
- 2005/2006 Section I includes: "The ethics of disaster: humanitarian aid and political power"; "Global markets, global divide"; "Too ho to handle: climate change"; "The missing girls of China"; "Millennium Development Goals: a new challenge" and "A beacon of freedom ?: the Christian right and Washington's foreign policy".
- Includes indexes.
- Includes bibliography.
- Contents: [Table of] Contents -- Charts and Statistics explanation -- Index to Special Boxes -- Preface dated Montevideo, September 2004 / Robert Bissio -- Staff Acknowledgements -- Section I: Global issues -- Section II: Countries -- Section III: The whole world in figures.
- Added Entry
- Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITEM)
- Third World Guide
- New Internationalist
- Subjects
- Developing countries - Statistics
- Developing countries - Directories
- Developing countries - Economic conditions - Periodicals
- Developing countries - Politics and government - Periodicals
- Developing countries - Social conditions - Periodicals
- ISBN
- 10904456-11-1 (2005 - 10th ed)
- 0-9540499-7-7 (paper) (2003/2004)
- Call Number
- HA 155 T5 2005
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries