Dependency Theory (Frank) LICs NEEs HICs (Development classifications) Rostow Model. 3D Jobs. Sustainable development. These just get better @ruth_mottram @icey_mark… Aid. Brandt. Cash crops. Country case studies. Cultural colonisation (cocacolonisation / MacDonaldisation) Development challenging charts. Development Indicators. Development projects. Factfulness. Factors affecting development. Fairtrade (Fair Trade) Food insecurity. Inequality incl Gini.
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SDGs. Trading groups / Trade blocs / Regional Development. The largest trading partner for each country. @McKinsey_MGI map. 6 things to know about global trade in 2016. If anything encapsulates our complex, uncertain, uncooperative world in 2016, it’s trade.
For decades seen as a powerful force for good – enhancing growth, competitiveness and living standards – trade made greater integration within the global economy seem more or less inevitable. But it hasn’t benefited all participants equally, and while hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty by the global economic growth it engendered, trade has laid waste to entire industries, stripping away livelihoods and hopes and helping give rise to an upsurge in nativism and nationalist politics.
Finding ways to retain the positive aspects of trade and investment will now be a key priority for leaders. With big-ticket trade deals taking years to negotiate and seemingly months to unravel, options may remain limited. "With these photos, I hope to add nuance to our understanding of Pakistan," says photographer Matthieu Paley. Lusophone map - Legend Of Polyglot: The History of the Portuguese-speaking World. The Portuguese-speaking world consists of nine independent countries around the world.
These eight other countries have been former colonies of Portugal. There are also places where the Portuguese language has a significant role like in Macau, China or Goa in India. There are all the posts that I have written about all the Portuguese speaking countries underneath the map. Total: 9 Africa (6) Asia (1) Europe (1) South America (1) Brazil. How 'guerilla' start-ups can make the word a better place. At the Stockholm Tech Fest this year, Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström issued a rare and refreshing call to implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their next startup idea.
As founder of Skype, he knows a thing or two about opportunity-spotting. The UN goals involve complex problems, but when it comes to clever startups, a lot can happen between now and 2030. What can 13th century European clocks tell us about economic growth today? “Remember that time is money.”
Already in 1748, Benjamin Franklin underlined in a short contribution to a business manual that the temporal aspect is a pivotal variable for the economy. This statement is even more relevant to today's business activities. An intellectual revolution is coming, says Robert J. Shiller. NEW HAVEN – For the past several centuries, the world has experienced a sequence of intellectual revolutions against oppression of one sort or another.
These revolutions operate in the minds of humans and are spread – eventually to most of the world – not by war (which tends to involve multiple causes), but by language and communications technology. Ultimately, the ideas they advance – unlike the causes of war – become noncontroversial. Isobar: The vaccine fridge that could save lives – with help from Einstein. Transporting vaccines to every corner of the globe is one of the key health priorities of our time, but every year thousands of life-saving medicines are lost through inadequate storage.
This may no longer be the case, thanks to the inventiveness of a 22-year-old graduate from the United Kingdom. Will Broadway’s invention is made even more interesting by the fact that his idea is based on a 100-year-old discovery made by Albert Einstein. Centroids: The world's economic centre of gravity, based on GDPs & location. Sustainable development: Efficient cookstoves save trees - and chickens - in Kenya. Explicit cookie consent. The Geography of U.S. Inequality.
Two economists have developed a new measure that could be an improvement on GDP. Gross domestic product often gets confused for a measure of economic well-being.
That’s understandable given how often GDP or GDP growth rates gets held up as the key measure of economic health. But should policymakers really care about how much an economy produces every year in and of itself? Political prize on offer to party who can ‘make Britain work for everyone’ When asked which political party is most committed to tackling poverty in the UK, 36% of voters said they didn’t know, the same number as who identified Labour as the political party as most committed to tackling poverty. 10% said the Conservatives, followed by UKIP (6%), the Greens (5%) and the Lib Dems (4%).
Research for JRF last week showed how people earning less than £20,000 a year, with lower qualifications and living in low-skilled areas were the driving force behind the vote to leave the European Union. The polling comes as JRF launches its ‘Working Age Poverty Risk Index’ in English parliamentary constituencies. The poverty risk index scores constituencies from 0 to 10 (where 0 is the lowest risk and 10 the highest), and is calculated using a combination of out of work benefits and in work tax credit recipients of working age.
America’s Shocking Maternal Deaths. Photo The rate at which women die during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth has fallen sharply in many nations as maternal care has improved.
The United States — and particularly Texas — is a glaring exception. In Texas, for instance, according to a study in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, the maternal mortality rate doubled from 17.7 per 100,000 live births in 2000 to 35.8 in 2014. Compare that with Germany, which had 4.1 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2014. In California, the rate fell from 21.5 in 2003 to 15.1 in 2014, but in the remaining 48 states and the District of Columbia the rate increased from 18.8 in 2000 to 23.8 in 2014. Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, 2014. A farmer’s fact-finding journey from cocoa bean to chocolate bar. Satellite images used to predict poverty. Image copyright AFP Researchers have combined satellite imagery with AI to predict areas of poverty across the world.
There's little reliable data on local incomes in developing countries, which hampers efforts to tackle the problem. A team from Stanford University were able to train a computer system to identify impoverished areas from satellite and survey data in five African countries. The results are published in the journal Science. Neal Jean, Marshall Burke and colleagues say the technique could transform efforts to track and target poverty in developing countries.
"The World Bank, which keeps the poverty data, has for a long time considered anyone who is poor to be someone who lives on below $1 a day," Dr Burke, assistant professor of Earth system science at Stanford, told the BBC's Science in Action programme. Only one part of the iPhone comes from America. And that just comes out of the ground. @techinsider chart. How We Share the World. This interactive graphic shows how the world is divided according to six different socioeconomic variables. The land area of each country represents its share of the worldwide total. Click on a circle to reshape the map. America's unequal schools. This map is a visualization of average high-school SAT and ACT scores and median household income. Each circle on the map is a high school with at least 150 students, and the size and color of the circle give information about the average college-readiness scores at this school.
The circles change from red to green and increase in size as scores go up; the blue background gets darker with increasing household income. Students are not considered college ready until they have ACT scores of about 21 or higher and/or SAT scores of about 1000 or higher. Tag: Red Cross.