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Social Progress Index - the new GDP? - 3 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...ality-of-life-index-shows.html ib_geog2009 Disparities in wealth and development Patterns in resource consumption Patterns and Change
shared by Dominic Tilley on 07 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Dominic Tilley on 07 Apr 14
     
    This new measure of national wealth could change the focus on economic wealth as a measure of development. Interestingly the rankings differ little from the GDP or HDI rankings, but it could influence future policy discussions.
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Global Forest Watch - 2 views

www.globalforestwatch.org ib_geog2009 Patterns in environmental quality and sustainability Patterns in resource consumption Patterns and Change
shared by Dominic Tilley on 24 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Dominic Tilley on 24 Feb 14
     
    Afforestation and Deforestation 2000 - 2012 interactive map, updated monthly. Shows real time changes in tree cover and is linked to Google maps, so you can zoom to the local, regional or global scale.
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BBC News - The rise of the $1-a-day statistic - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...magazine-17312819 Disparities in wealth and development ib_geog2009 Patterns and Change
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  • Dominic Tilley on 09 Mar 12
     
    Description of the origin and uses of 1$ a day as a measure of absolute povery
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'Most poor people don't live in the poorest countries' - University of Oxford - 1 views

www.ox.ac.uk/...111207_2.html disparities in wealth and development
shared by Dominic Tilley on 09 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Dominic Tilley on 09 Dec 11
     
    Multidimensional Poverty Index shows regional variations of poverty within middle and low income countries
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One Percenters' Income Nearly Tripled In Last Three Decades: CBO - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...come-inequality_n_1032632.html ib_geog2009 Disparities in wealth and development Patterns and Change
shared by Dominic Tilley on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Dominic Tilley on 27 Oct 11
     
    Increased wealth disparities in the US in the last 30 Years
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BBC News - Inequality in China: Rural poverty persists as urban wealth balloons - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-13945072 ib_geog2009 Disparities in wealth and development inequality china
shared by Ann Smith on 30 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Dominic Tilley on 30 Jun 11
     
    The rapid growth of China's economy over the past three decades has been greeted with largely unquestioned assumptions that increasing affluence would lead to a happier, wealthier and more equitable society. Of course, such assumptions came with an implicit acceptance that some would get rich faster, but also that these benefits would eventually trickle down.
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BBC News - Climate change: Rising sea levels hit Maputo, Rotterdam - 1 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8369236.stm IB global warming climate_change maputo Rotterdam rising_seas_levels atmosphere
shared by Charlotte Lemaitre on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Dominic Tilley on 25 Nov 09
     
    Climate change response strategies contrasted for two cities
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Norway "best" country to live in - 2 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8290550.stm ib_geog2009 disparities_indicators
shared by Dominic Tilley on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Dominic Tilley on 05 Oct 09
     
    HDI made simple - talks about the index and recent changes in how countries fared
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California a failing state (Guardian) - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...california-failing-state-debt ib_geog2009 population_change migration environ_sustain disparities_origin
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  • Dominic Tilley on 04 Oct 09
     
    Offers diagnosis of present crisis and some hints of a hopeful (greener) future.
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