Skip to main content

Home/ Economics A Level/ Group items tagged education

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Duncan Innes

Inside Story - Are technology and education inseparable? - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

technology education youtube india

shared by Duncan Innes on 26 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Duncan Innes on 26 Jan 12
     
    How india uses technology in education
Duncan Innes

World job crisis is a threat to democracy, says IMF head | Business | The Observer - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...imf-us-jobs-currency

IMF Exchange Rates Economics Observer Unemployment G20 Trade

shared by Duncan Innes on 10 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF's managing director, warned that "we face the risk of a lost generation", adding: "When you lose your job, your health is likely to be worse. When you lose your job, the education of your children is likely to be worse. When you lose your job, social stability is likely to be worse – which threatens democracy and even peace. So we shouldn't fool ourselves. We are not out of the woods yet. And for the man in the street, a recovery without jobs doesn't mean much."
    • Duncan Innes
      Duncan Innes on 10 Oct 10
       
      USA is losing patience with China
  • Tim Geithner, Obama's treasury secretary, said: "The United States believes that global rebalancing is not progressing as well as needed to avoid threats to the global economic recovery.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • "Our initial achievements are at risk of being undermined by the limited extent of progress toward more domestic demand-led growth in countries running external surpluses and by the extent of foreign exchange intervention as countries with undervalued currencies lean against appreciation."
  • "In the G20 framework there are too many people and too many interests to be able to find a currency arrangement," Juncker said. "The ideal forum would be G7 plus China."
Thomas Minney

Poverty Is Poison - New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...18krugman.html

poverty africa new york times

shared by Thomas Minney on 16 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • many children growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones, which impair their neural development
  • That’s not surprising. Growing up in poverty puts you at a disadvantage at every step. I’d bracket those new studies on brain development in early childhood with a study from the National Center for Education Statistics, which tracked a group of students who were in eighth grade in 1988. The study found, roughly speaking, that in modern America parental status trumps ability: students who did very well on a standardized test but came from low-status families were slightly less likely to get through college than students who tested poorly but had well-off parents.None of this is inevitable. Poverty rates are much lower in most European countries than i
  • came into office in 1997 made reducing poverty a priority — and despite some setbacks, its program of income subsidies and other aid has achieved a great deal. Child poverty, in particular, has been cut in half by the measure that corresponds most closely to the U.S. definition. At the moment it’s hard to imagine anything comparable happening in this country. To their credit — and to the credit of John Edwards, who goaded them
  • ...9 more annotations...
  • dest in scope and far from central to their campaigns.I’m not blaming them for that; if a progressive wins this election, it will be by promising to ease the anxiety of the middle class rather than aiding the poor. And for a variety of reasons, health care, not poverty, should be the first priority of a Democratic administration.
  • he nation turns back to the task it abandoned — that of ending the poverty that still poisons so many American lives.
  • the alleged abuses of welfare queens driving Cadillacs, and the fight against poverty was largely abandoned.In 2006, 17.4 percent of children in America lived below the poverty line, substantially more than in 1969. And even this measure probably unders
  • as always been a form of exile, of being cut off from the larger society. But the distance between the poor and the rest of us is much greater than it was 40 years ago, because most American incomes have risen in real terms while the official poverty line has not. To be poor in America today, even more than in the past, is to be an outcast in your own country. And that, the neuroscientists tell us, is what poisons a child’s brain.
  • failure to make progress in reducing poverty, especially among children, should provoke a lot of soul-searching. Unfortunately, what it often seems to
  • Some of these excuses take the form of assertions that America’s poor really aren’t all that poor — a claim that always has me wondering whether those making it watched an
  • eativity in making excuses.
  • an city. Mainly, however, excuses for poverty involve the assertion that the United States is a land of opportunity, a place where people can start out poor, work hard and become rich.But the fact of the matter is that Horatio Al
  • dren growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels
  • Thomas Minney on 16 Dec 10
     
    The effect of poverty on children and families, and it's multiple and long term consequences.
Duncan Innes

UK National Debt | Economics Blog - 0 views

www.economicshelp.org/...uk-national-debt

UK national debt economics graph economics help PSBR PSNCR

shared by Duncan Innes on 27 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Interest Payments. The cost of paying interest on the government’s debt is very high. In 2008 Debt interest payments will be £31 billion a year (est 2.5% of GDP). In 2009, they will be £35 billion (similar to defence budget). Public sector debt interest payments could be be the 4th highest department after social security, health and education. Debt interest payments are rising close to £70bn given rise in national debt.
  • Duncan Innes on 27 Sep 11
     
    All you need to know about our national debt - please read problems of national debt bit
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page