Category: Demography

Dying Young Is Quickly Becoming A Thing Of The Past

Sep 13, 2014

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mwkruse

in Demography, Health and Medicine, Trends: Social

Business Insider: Dying Young Is Quickly Becoming A Thing Of The Past It shows the risk of dying at any given age, with the lighter-colored line representing the risk in 1970 and the darker line representing the risk in 2010. In 1970, people had a 28% chance of dying before they turned 50. By 2010,…
Reasons to Be Cheerful

Aug 19, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Demography, Education, Environment, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Matt Ridley: Reasons to Be Cheerful We are prone to fixate on problems and threats. The news concentrates on Ebola, the Middle East and Ukraine violence, and the discord in Ferguson, Missouri. But it is important to keep present challenges (and they are more decidedly real) in context. Matt Ridley offers twelve reasons to be…
The Populations Of The US, China, And Japan. 1990-2050

Jul 1, 2014

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mwkruse

in China, Demography, Trends: Social

Business Insider: Epic Demographic Chart Shows What's Happening To The Populations Of The US, China, And Japan
Measuring Inequality: On Using Snapshots When Only Video Will Do

Jun 2, 2014

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mwkruse

in Demography, Economics, Poverty, Sociology, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

When it comes to understanding inequality, the debate is frequently burdened with many misunderstandings about data. When talking about wealth inequality, we see statements like "85 people own more wealth than the bottom half of humanity." Wealth is routinely misunderstood to mean money and things someone owns. It isn't. Wealth is someone's total assets minus…
Economic Development Links

May 27, 2014

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mwkruse

in Africa, Capitalism and Markets, Central America, China, Demography, Economic Development, Education, Environment, Gender and Sex, Globalization, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, International Affairs, Links – Economic Development, Poverty, Technology (Food & Water), Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

1. Economist: March of the Middle Class 2. Chrsitianity Today: Poverty Is a Moral Problem – Interview with William Easterly … The sad thing is that the field and practice of development have too often been on the wrong side of this debate. They’ve implicitly painted themselves into a corner where they’re on the authoritarian…
These Staggering Maps Shows How Much The World’s Population Is Aging

May 16, 2014

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mwkruse

in Demography, Trends: Social

Business Insider: These Staggering Maps Shows How Much The World's Population Is Aging
Global Poverty Is on the Decline, But Almost No One Believes It

May 2, 2014

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Demography, Economic Development, Health and Medicine, Poverty, Public Policy, Trends: Economic

Barna: Global Poverty Is on the Decline, But Almost No One Believes It April 29, 2014—Did you know that, in the past 30 years, the percentage of people in the world who live in extreme poverty has decreased by more than half? If you said no—if you thought the number had gone up; that more…
Economic Development Links

Apr 8, 2014

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mwkruse

in Africa, Capitalism and Markets, China, Demography, Economic Development, Environment, Europe, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Immigration, India, Links – Economic Development, Microenterprise, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Sociology, Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

1. You Decide: Save the People or Save the Planet #StopTheMyth 2. New York Times: The End of the ‘Developing World’ BILL GATES, in his foundation’s annual letter, declared that “the terms ‘developing countries’ and ‘developed countries’ have outlived their usefulness.” He’s right. If we want to understand the modern global economy, we need a…
Demography Links

Apr 1, 2014

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mwkruse

in Culture, Demography, Economic Development, Education, Europe, Gender and Sex, Generations, Health and Medicine, History, Immigration, Links – Demography, Public Policy, Race, Sociology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

1. Washington Post: Robert Samuelson: America’s demographic denial … For proof, see Paul Taylor’s new book, “The Next America.” Taylor oversees many of the Pew Research Center’s opinion surveys. His masterful synthesis of polls shows that three familiar mega-trends lie at the core of America’s political and social stalemate. First, immigration. By 2050, immigrants and…
Air Pollution Replaces Poor Diet As World’s Largest Preventable Health Risk

Mar 26, 2014

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mwkruse

in Demography, Environment, Health and Medicine, Poverty

Forbes: Air Pollution Replaces Poor Diet As World's Largest Preventable Health Risk Dirty air killed an alarming 7 million people – or, one of every eight human lives lost – in 2012, according to new estimates released today by the World Health Organization (WHO). The new data shows that air pollution has become the world’s…