Reviews of previous editions: "Perfect companion."--The Times"You need more than one of everything because no information is value-free--except perhaps in [Palgrave's] annual The Statesman's Yearbook...a masterpiece of pure quantification."--Daily Telegraph (Victoria Glendinning's choice of Top Reference Book)"The book should be in every office which is concerned with world trade and, indeed, in every school which produces the future traders. It is an essential tool of all global thinking."--The Geographical Magazine"Long a staple of reference collections ... provides unbiased political, social and economic background on the countries of the world."--Distinguished Classics of Reference Publishing
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Reviews of previous editions:
"Perfect companion."--The Times
"You need more than one of everything because no information is value-free--except perhaps in [Palgrave's] annual The Statesman's Yearbook...a masterpiece of pure quantification."--Daily Telegraph (Victoria Glendinning's choice of Top Reference Book)
"The book should be in every office which is concerned with world trade and, indeed, in every school which produces the future traders. It is an essential tool of all global thinking."--The Geographical Magazine
"Long a staple of reference collections ... provides unbiased political, social and economic background on the countries of the world."--Distinguished Classics of Reference Publishing
