Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Guide to the online atlas -- Classification of economies -- The Millennium Development Goals -- Rich and poor -- Measuring income -- Growth and opportunity -- Where is the wealth of nations? -- How poor is poor? -- People -- Population growth...

Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to...