The goal of development is to permanently improve the welfare of people everywhere. In a world where 1.2 billion people live on less than $1 a day, 10 million children under the age of five die each year, mostly from preventable diseases,
and 113 million primary school age children do not attend school, we know we have not succeeded. But have we made progress? The World Bank eAtlas mapping tool, developed in cooperation with Harper Collins UK, allows users to easily and quickly transform data into customized visual comparisons across time, countries, and regions. The resulting full color maps and graphs can subsequently be exported for sharing, used in presentations, and saved for later use.(http://publications.worldbank.org/index.php?main_page=page&id=22)