Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Methodology for Preparing the Charts -- Part I -- On Economic Growth -- The Nature of Economics -- Efficiency and Inflation -- Fast and Sustained -- On the Variables that Affect Growth -- Culture -- Religion -- Language -- Ethnicity -- Size of Population -- Population Growth -- Natural Resources -- Politics and Economic Growth -- Terrorism -- Education -- Science and Technology -- Infrastructure -- Health -- Income Distribution -- Exogenous Factors -- Democracy -- Corruption -- Foreign Investment -- Female Emancipation -- Business Performance -- Bank Performance -- Environmental Protection -- Environmental Sustainability in the Developing World -- Schools of Economic Thought -- Mercantilism -- Physiocratism -- Liberalism -- Comparative Advantage -- Marxism -- Keynesianism -- Import Substitution -- Neo-Mercantilism -- Mainstream Economics -- The Lesser of Evils -- Part II -- Chapter 1. World and Regional Statistics -- The World -- World Economy -- East Asia -- Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union -- Latin America and Caribbean -- Middle East and North Africa -- North America -- Oceania -- South Asia -- Southeast Asia -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Western Europe -- Chapter 2. East Asia -- China -- Hong Kong -- Japan -- Korea (South Korea) -- Mongolia -- North Korea -- Taiwan -- Chapter 3. Eastern Europe And The Ex-Soviet Union -- Albania -- Bulgaria -- Czech Republic -- Hungary -- Poland -- Romania -- Russia -- Yugoslavia -- Chapter 4. Latin America and the Caribbean -- Argentina -- Bahamas -- Bolivia -- Brazil -- Chile -- Colombia -- Costa Rica -- Cuba -- Dominican Republic -- Ecuador -- El Salvador -- Guatemala -- Haiti -- Honduras -- Jamaica -- Mexico -- Nicaragua -- Panama -- Paraguay -- Peru -- Puerto Rico -- Uruguay -- Venezuela -- Chapter 5. Middle East and North Africa -- Afghanistan -- Algeria -- Bahrain.

Egypt -- Iran -- Iraq -- Israel -- Jordan -- Kuwait -- Lebanon -- Libya -- Morocco -- Oman -- Qatar -- Saudi Arabia -- Syria -- Tunisia -- Turkey -- United Arab Emirates -- Yemen -- Chapter 6. North America -- Canada -- The United States of America -- Chapter 7. Oceania -- Australia -- Nauru -- New Zealand -- Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 8. South Asia -- Bangladesh -- Bhutan -- India -- Nepal -- Pakistan -- Sri Lanka -- Chapter 9. Southeast Asia -- Brunei -- Burma (Myanmar) -- Cambodia -- Indonesia -- Laos -- Malaysia -- Philippines -- Singapore -- Thailand -- Vietnam -- Chapter 10. Sub-Saharan Africa -- Angola -- Benin -- Botswana -- Burkina Faso -- Burundi -- Cameroon -- Central African Republic -- Chad -- Congo -- Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) -- Equatorial Guinea -- Ethiopia -- Ghana -- Guinea -- Ivory Coast -- Kenya -- Liberia -- Madagascar -- Malawi -- Mali -- Mauritania -- Mozambique -- Namibia -- Niger -- Nigeria -- Rwanda -- Senegal -- Sierra Leone -- South Africa -- Sudan -- Tanzania -- Togo -- Uganda -- Zambia -- Zimbabwe -- Chapter 11. Western Europe -- Austria -- Belgium -- Denmark -- Finland -- France -- Germany -- German Democratic Republic (Eastern Germany) -- Great Britain -- Greece -- Iceland -- Ireland -- Italy -- Luxembourg -- Malta -- Netherlands -- Norway -- Portugal -- Spain -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- Conclusion -- References.