An accurate world ... projection map, you would think the opposite. In addition to the map’s size problem, several critics of it say that the wide use of Mercator’s system shows a cultural bias. Arno ...
Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.
There are only three years on record when the U.S. devoted even close to that amount to foreign aid: 1947, 1949 and 1951, when the global landscape looked very different following World War II and ...
It is the World Bank’s job to lend to all 78 of the world’s poorest countries—defined both by their income per person and the sustainability of their debt burden—through a single fund ...