World Economic Prospects 2007 (5th edition)

Now in its fifth edition, this work “provides a detailed assessment of prospects in the world's largest economies”, and in usual Euromonitor fashion, presents concisely in one volume a wide variety of potentially invaluable data to assist with international decision making.

I last looked at this title back in 2003 (RR 2003/248). This new edition has expanded the coverage of the world's largest economies to 71 countries spread across seven regions. Much of this expansion is centred on Central Asia and Eastern Europe reflecting countries which have achieved independence from the Soviet Union and are emerging from communism. However,...