The World Guide 1999/2000: A View from the South

From personal observation, more and more reference libraries are subscribing to this remarkable guide, described by the publishers as “an alternative reference to the countries of our planet”. First published in Mexico as Guía de Tercer Mundo, in 1979, the first English‐language edition, Third World Guide, appeared in 1986, with subsequent editions issued at two‐year intervals to 1992, and a change to the present title in 1995 and 1997, and a millennium edition in 1999. The fact that it is published biennially, and not annually, at a price far below that of other world directories, makes it an...