Tag: Developing World

Economic Development Links

Apr 8, 2014

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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…
Saturday Links

Jul 27, 2013

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mwkruse

in Africa, Business, Capitalism and Markets, China, Crime, Culture, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Links – Saturday, Politics, Public Policy, Race, Religion, Social Media, Sociology, South America, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet)

1. Mark Buchanan asks Is Economics a Science or a Religion? 2. Poverty has moved to the suburbs I don't think this should be seen as necessarily a bad thing. A few decades ago, the idea was to "warehouse" the poor in large urban complexes. There has been an intentional effort at dispersal through various…
The new famine is a crisis of undersupply

Dec 28, 2012

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mwkruse

in Africa, Economic Development, Poverty, Technology (Food & Water)

Globe and Mail: The new famine is a crisis of undersupply "… Is this a catastrophe of the sort that took place a generation ago, when mass famines in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s killed hundreds of thousands of people at a time? No. This time around, the cause is much simpler, and the…
Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report

Dec 18, 2012

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mwkruse

in Africa, Economic Development, Human Progress, International Affairs, Poverty, Trends: Economic

New Geography: Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report There has been a substantial reduction in both the extreme poverty rate and the number of people living in extreme poverty since the early 1980s, according to information from the World Bank poverty database. The World Bank maintains data on developing world nations, which include both low…
How Facebook and Twitter Are Making Developing World Cities Better

Nov 13, 2012

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mwkruse

in Economic Development, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Social Media, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet)

Atlantic Cities: How Facebook and Twitter Are Making Developing World Cities Better … In Latin America, Mexico City is not unique. Use of social media is growing at a breathtaking pace across the region. When Facebook passed the 1 billion user mark in October, few people noticed that 19 percent of those users live in…
New test to improve HIV diagnosis in poor countries

Nov 1, 2012

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mwkruse

in Health and Medicine, Poverty, Science

Reuters: New test to improve HIV diagnosis in poor countries (Reuters) – Scientists have come up with a test for the virus that causes AIDS that is ten times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of existing methods, offering the promise of better diagnosis and treatment in the developing world. The test uses…
Global Poverty Falls Below One Billion

Jan 26, 2011

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mwkruse

in Africa, Central America, China, Demography, Education, Gender and Sex, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, India, International Affairs, Poverty, South America, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

The Brookings Institution: Poverty in Numbers: The Changing State of Global Poverty from 2005 to 2015 … How many poor people are there in the world and how many Are there likely to be in 2015? To calculate the number of people in the world living in extreme poverty, we update the World Bank’s official…

Tag: Developing World

Economic Development Links

Saturday Links

The new famine is a crisis of undersupply

Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report

How Facebook and Twitter Are Making Developing World Cities Better

New test to improve HIV diagnosis in poor countries

Global Poverty Falls Below One Billion