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Product Description Gain instant access to the World Resources'Institute's authorative database on global conditions and trends. This time-saving research and reference tool contains all the vital economic, population, natural resource, and environmental statistics found in the print edition of the World Resources 1998-99, plus a 20 year time series for many variables, and mover. Valuable databse contains 450 essential variables for 170 countries and regional and economic groupings. User-friendly software lets you browse, select, and export any or all the data. Requires a hard disk, MS-DOS or PC-DOS 3.0 or greater, 300K Ram and Graphics capability About the Author World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental non-profit think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1982 by James Gustave (Gus) Speth. WRI is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit organization with a staff of more than 100 scientists, economists, policy experts,business analysts, statistical analysts, mapmakers, and communicators developing and promoting policies with the intention of protecting the Earth and improving peoples lives.