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A Day in the Life of Tambuzai - Experience Poverty - YouTube - 1 views

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    A Day in the Life of Tambuzai - Experience Poverty, video on life of a girl in Mozambique
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Poverty Overview - 0 views

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  • ping world has already attained the first Millennium Development Goal target—to cut the 1990 poverty rate in half by 2015. The 1990 extreme poverty rate – $1.25 a day in 2005 prices – was halved in 2010, according to estimates
  • According to these estimates, 21 percent of people in the developing world lived at or below $1.25 a day. That’s down from 43 percent in 1990 and 52 percent in 1981. This means that 1.22 billion people lived on less than $1.25 a day in 2010, compared with 1.91 billion in 1990, and 1.94 billion in 1981.
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    Poverty Overview from World Bank with summary of global trends
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EP125.pdf - 0 views

  • Although the world witnessed an unprecedented pace of poverty reduction over the last decades, reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty by more than 700 million, approximately 1.2 billion people remained entrenched in destitution in 2010.1
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    The State of the Poor: Where Are The Poor, Where Is Extreme Poverty Harder to End, and What Is the Current Profile of the World's Poor?
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▶ World's Most Poverty Stricken Areas - YouTube - 0 views

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    film by World Bank on changes in world poverty extent and distribution. Quite upbeat.
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Gross National Happiness: a bad idea whose time has gone - beyondbrics - Blogs - FT.com - 0 views

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    Is Bhutan really the happiest place on Earth?
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Robin Parker on Twitter: "This is what it looks like when you plot life expectancy... - 0 views

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    Did Scotland make the wrong choice? Who voted yes and who voted no?
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Susan Johnston on Twitter: "Sources, code, stats & data on Rpubs: http://t.co/... - 0 views

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    Did Scotland make the wrong choice? Who voted yes and who voted no?
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http://www.bowbrick.org.uk/Famine%20papers/ALLDOC.HTM - 3 views

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      This looks controversial- good for project?
  • The analysis is presented purely as a refutation of Sen. It is not a complete analysis of the Bengal famine
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