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The Global Struggle to Respond to the Worst Refugee Crisis in Generations - 1 views
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Refugees and Displaced Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Center. *Most recent refugee data for 2013. Sources: Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, International Organization for Migration Additional work by Joe Burgess and David Furst.
The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion - 1 views
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The second half of the 1960s was a boom time for nightmarish visions of what lay ahead for humankind. In 1966, for example, a writer named Harry Harrison came out with a science fiction novel titled "Make Room! Make Room!"
BBC News - Iceland 'best country for gender equality' - 2 views
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Iceland 'best country for gender equality'
Yemen threatens to chew itself to death over thirst for narcotic qat plant | Environmen... - 4 views
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Water already causes armed conflict in the capital, but there is worse to come for a hungry country when the oilfields run dry
Pordata - Population Data for Portugal - 0 views
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In English - very useful for a case study country that isn't often used!
United Nations population data for every country in the world - 2 views
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Population Datablog for world countries
Worldstat.com - statistics for education - 3 views
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Produced by a Danish IB geography teacher who produced it together with a colleague for the World Bank app. competition.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Americas on alert for sea level rise - 1 views
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Climate change experts in North and South America are increasingly worried by the potentially devastating implications of higher estimates for possible sea level rises.
Delhi female births rise hailed - 0 views
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India's capital, Delhi, recorded more female than male births during 2008, for the first time in many decades.
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India's capital, Delhi, recorded more female than male births during 2008, for the first time in many decades.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China babies 'sold for adoption' - 0 views
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Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
"Sending Money Home to Africa" - remittances hold immense untapped potential for the poor - 5 views
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African workers send home more than US$40 billion to the region each year but restrictive laws and costly fees hamper the power of remittances to lift people out of poverty, according to a new report by the UN's rural poverty agency, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Global Campaign for Education - 0 views
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This report from the Global Campaign for Education is entitled "Back to School? The Worst Places in the World to Be a School Child 2010." [Submitted by John Jordan]
Women's economic empowerment offers a win-win scenario | Naila Kabeer | Global developm... - 4 views
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Not only does gender equality lead to higher economic growth, it is key to ensuring a fairer world for both men and women
Two million to be moved in one of largest relocations in Chinese history - Telegraph - 4 views
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Amazing case study for the effects of internal migration in China.
Migrants' billions put aid in the shade | Global development | The Guardian - 3 views
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Money transfers from workers abroad to family back home have tripled in a decade and are three times larger than global aid budgets - Great for Paper 1
Amazon Rainforest News: WWF calls for more intensive beef production in Brazil - 0 views
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