https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations Best content in ISExplorations | Diigo - Groups Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:10:24 -0000 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:10:24 -0000 http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/programs.html <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/research">research</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/action">action</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/programs">programs</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22group+work%22">group work</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/strategies">strategies</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/plan">plan</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/teamwork">teamwork</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/t0nywilliams" title="View Tony Williams's content in group">Tony Williams</a></p> Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:10:24 -0000 http://www.scmp.com/content/search/poverty <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/essays">essays</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/scmp">scmp</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/poverty">poverty</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/research">research</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/t0nywilliams" title="View Tony Williams's content in group">Tony Williams</a></p> Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:09:22 -0000 http://www.voicesofyouth.org <p><strong>Comments:</strong><ul><li>Unicef website highlighting different ways that young people can do things. - <small><a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/p_benthm" title="View Paul Bentham's content in group">Paul Bentham</a></small></li></ul></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/Global">Global</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/Perspectives">Perspectives</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/p_benthm" title="View Paul Bentham's content in group">Paul Bentham</a></p> Mon, 18 Nov 2013 03:45:43 -0000 http://slaveryfootprint.org <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/slavery">slavery</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/p_benthm" title="View Paul Bentham's content in group">Paul Bentham</a></p> Thu, 14 Nov 2013 02:01:43 -0000 http://www.economist.com/news/international/21586601-eradicating-extreme-poverty-no-longer-pipe-dream-first-governments-must-agree <p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="bubble"><span class="annInner"><img src="https://www.diigo.com/images/v2/float_note.gif" /></span></div><ul><li>This is interesting because... - <small><a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/mroperx" title="View Mark Roper's content in group">Mark Roper</a></small></li></ul></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Yet as Nepal shows, cutting poverty is not just about boosting incomes.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">MPI, or multidimensional poverty index</div></div><ul><li>We need to find this out - I think it is a measure of poverty.  Can we use it to compare countries? - <small><a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/mroperx" title="View Mark Roper's content in group">Mark Roper</a></small></li></ul></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Emma Samman of ODI says, “It is not clear that the $1.25-a-day poverty line, the measure upon which this vision of a poverty-free world exists, is necessarily the best way to think about and measure poverty</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">multidimensional poverty index</div></div><ul><li>What is this?  Can it be used to compare countries? - <small><a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/mroperx" title="View Mark Roper's content in group">Mark Roper</a></small></li></ul></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">2006 Nepal has seen the largest falls in poverty,</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Between 1990 and 2010 the proportion of the population living on less than $1.25 a day in developing countries halved to 21%, or 1.2 billion people (see chart)</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">1657837-185683386</div></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/economist">economist</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/poverty">poverty</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/mroperx" title="View Mark Roper's content in group">Mark Roper</a></p> Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:44:58 -0000 https://www.diigo.com/item/image/zoc7/c8k2 <p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">1657837_185683386_11812666</div></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/no_tag">no_tag</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/mroperx" title="View Mark Roper's content in group">Mark Roper</a></p> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 05:12:18 -0000 http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/hong-kong-government-sets/843546.html <p><strong>Comments:</strong><ul><li>"The government-appointed Commission on Poverty has set Hong Kong's first poverty line at half of the median monthly household income" - <small><a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/simsp1" title="View pete sims's content in group">pete sims</a></small></li></ul></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">1.31 million people or 19.6 per cent of the city's population are now classified as poor</div></div></p><p><div class="tab-gallery-area"><div class="tab-holder"><div class="tab active-tab" id="photo-tab"><div class="tab-gallery-nav"><ul><li class="btn-enlarge"><a href="#">Enlarge</a></li> <li><a href="#" class="btn-caption" title="Caption">Caption<span class="ico-caption">&nbsp;</span></a></li> </ul> </div></div> <div class="tab news-video-gallery-tab" id="video-tab"> <div class="gallery-tab-holder"> <div class="main-slide"> <div class="img active" style="opacity: 1;"> <div> <div id="bcplayer"> <!-- Start of Brightcove Player --> <div style="display:none"></div> <div class="brightcove"> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?&amp;width=480&amp;height=270&amp;flashID=myExperience&amp;bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&amp;playerID=1384899509001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~%2CAAABQkhW1wE~%2CDzCph19pYTFLRsRohjMQoo84JgStOK3X&amp;isVid=true&amp;isUI=true&amp;dynamicStreaming=true&amp;includeAPI=true&amp;templateLoadHandler=handleTemplateLoaded&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;showNoContentMessage=false&amp;autoStart=&amp;debuggerID=&amp;startTime=1382935314333" id="myExperience" width="480" height="270" class="BrightcoveExperience" seamlesstabbing="undefined"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="seamlessTabbing" value="false"><param name="swliveconnect" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"></object> </div> <!-- This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. 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<p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22critical+thinking%22">critical thinking</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/mroperx" title="View Mark Roper's content in group">Mark Roper</a></p> Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:31:38 -0000 http://www.savethechildren.org.uk <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/research">research</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/p_benthm" title="View Paul Bentham's content in group">Paul Bentham</a></p> Sun, 08 Sep 2013 04:03:43 -0000 http://www.globalissues.org/article/4/poverty-around-the-world <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a 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href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/research">research</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/p_benthm" title="View Paul Bentham's content in group">Paul Bentham</a></p> Sun, 08 Sep 2013 04:01:47 -0000 https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/research">research</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/p_benthm" title="View Paul Bentham's content in group">Paul Bentham</a></p> Sun, 08 Sep 2013 03:59:46 -0000 http://www.christianaid.org.uk <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/research">research</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/p_benthm" title="View Paul Bentham's content in group">Paul Bentham</a></p> Sun, 08 Sep 2013 03:58:59 -0000 http://www.actionaid.org/who-we-are <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/p_benthm" title="View Paul Bentham's content in group">Paul Bentham</a></p> Sun, 08 Sep 2013 03:58:11 -0000 http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1299520/tenants-industrial-building-subdivided-flats-will-get-one-subsidy <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/scmp">scmp</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/article">article</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/mroperx" title="View Mark Roper's content in group">Mark Roper</a></p> Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:46:20 -0000 http://www.scmp.com/topics/social-inequality <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22hong+kong%22">hong kong</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/google">google</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/search">search</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/mroperx" title="View Mark Roper's content in group">Mark Roper</a></p> Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:33:31 -0000 https://www.diigo.com/extension/chrome/new.html <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22hong+kong%22">hong kong</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/scmp">scmp</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/google_search">google_search</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/mroperx" title="View Mark Roper's content in group">Mark Roper</a></p> Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:25:38 -0000 http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22Richard+Wilkinson%22">Richard Wilkinson</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/TED">TED</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/%22poverty+and+inequality%22">poverty and inequality</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/economics">economics</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/politics">politics</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/wealth">wealth</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/tag/development">development</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/is_explorations/content/user/mroperx" title="View Mark Roper's content in group">Mark Roper</a></p> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:18:04 -0000