Tag: Child Mortality
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World Social Indicators: Child Mortality
Alongside life expectancy, a second measure of prosperity demographers frequently use is the child mortality rate. The child mortality rate is the number of children that die between birth and their fifth birthday per 1,000 live births. Because the first years of life are when human beings are most vulnerable, their ability to survive the…
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23 Charts That Show Why This Is The Best Moment In History To Be Born
Business Insider: 23 Charts That Show Why This Is The Best Moment In History To Be Born Here are a few of my favorites. Click through to see the rest. The big question is not how to stop the world from spiraling into chaos. The big question is how we get an improving world to…
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Dying Young Is Quickly Becoming A Thing Of The Past
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,…
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Economic Development Links
1. Why the Millennium Development Goals Need the Church (and Vice Versa) – Richard Stearns … Christians can bring to the table a unique perspective on poverty that can help to solve its insidious nature. Poverty is often a matter of broken relationships as much as it is about lacking material things. A community's values…
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Saturday Links
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in Africa, Business, China, Crime, Culture, Demography, Ecclesia, Economic Development, Economics, Education, Environment, Health and Medicine, History, Human Progress, India, Links – Saturday, Public Policy, Race, Sociology, South America, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Food & Water), Theology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Vocation1. The High Calling published an article I wrote. I linked it earlier, but here it is again in an act of shameless self-promotion. It goes to some core issues I'm trying to put into a book. Six Ideas on How to Lead Congregations to Integrate Work and Discipleship 2. Should Pastors Know How Much…
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Africa’s Urbanizing, But Not How You Think
Atlantic Cities: Africa's Urbanizing, But Not How You Think … Deborah Potts, a demographer from Kings College London who studies urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa, says that more people are moving from urban areas to rural ones in countries like Ivory Coast, Mali, Zambia and Central African Republic. She says these "counter-movements" are the result of…
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A mother’s education has a huge effect on a child’s health
Washington Post: A mother's education has a huge effect on a child's health It turns out that pencils and books for mothers may be as important as vaccines and drugs for babies in reducing child mortality in the developing world. That's because a mother's education level has a huge, if indirect, effect on the health…
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MEC: Measuring Prosperity Past and Present
Brian McLaren's Everything Must Change suffers from a parochialism of the present. I mean two things by that. First, it is lacking in historical perspective. Second, it takes present circumstances, values, rates of consumption, and technologies and projects them unaltered into the future. It is like taking a frame from a video clip, ignoring everything…
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UNICEF: Worldwide Child Mortality Rates Lowest Ever
Fox News: UNICEF: Worldwide Child Mortality Rates Lowest Ever More children are surviving today than ever before," said Ann Veneman, UNICEF's executive director. New data from the UN Children's Fund suggests that life-saving measures like vitamin A supplementation, insect nets and vaccines are reaching more children than ever in poor countries. Global child deaths fell…