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Mark Roper

Poverty: Growth or safety net? | The Economist - 0 views

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poverty and inequality economist poverty

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      Mark Roper on 28 Oct 13
       
      This is interesting because...
  • Yet as Nepal shows, cutting poverty is not just about boosting incomes.
  • MPI, or multidimensional poverty index
    • Mark Roper
      Mark Roper on 28 Oct 13
       
      We need to find this out - I think it is a measure of poverty.  Can we use it to compare countries?
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  • 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
  • multidimensional poverty index
    • Mark Roper
      Mark Roper on 28 Oct 13
       
      What is this?  Can it be used to compare countries?
  • 2006 Nepal has seen the largest falls in poverty,
  • 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)
Mark Roper

China's internet: A giant cage | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...e-china-instead-it-has-enabled

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  • THIRTEEN YEARS AGO Bill Clinton, then America’s president, said that trying to control the internet in China would be like trying to “nail Jell-O to the wall”. At the time he seemed to be stating the obvious. By its nature the web was widely dispersed, using so many channels that it could not possibly be blocked
  • Just as earlier communications technologies may have helped topple dictatorships in the past (for example, the telegraph in Russia’s Bolshevik revolutions in 1917 and short-wave radio in the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991), the internet would surely erode China’s authoritarian state. Vastly increased access to information and the ability to communicate easily with like-minded people round the globe would endow its users with asymmetric power,
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