Unit 4 Macro: Growth from Thailand to Turkey
Drawing on data from the December 2012 World Bank Database, this Guardian data resource looks at growth and development indicators for six fast growing countries over the period 2007-2011. The countries are Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and Turkey, looking at child mortality, university enrolment, mobile phone subscriptions and the numbers of tourists arriving to analyse the 'boom'
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