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

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poverty and inequality economist poverty

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      This is interesting because...
  • Yet as Nepal shows, cutting poverty is not just about boosting incomes.
  • MPI, or multidimensional poverty index
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      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
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      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

BBC News - Is Hong Kong really the world's freest economy? - 1 views

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poverty and inequality bbc

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  • Hong Kong has been ranked as the world's freest economy for the past 18 years, a title bestowed on it by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank.
  • Hong Kong's free-market credentials have long masked a more complicated picture than its model economy status suggests
  • the introduction of a minimum wage
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  • gross domestic product per head is high at $32,000
  • disparity between rich and poor is wide
  • More than half of the population earn less than HK$11,000 ($1,400; £920) a month and household incomes have barely increased over the past 10 years despite a booming economy
  • government provides public housing to about 50% of the population.
  • The Hong Kong government is also directly involved in other, sometimes surprising, areas of the economy.
  • Disneyland
  • major shareholder in MTR Corp
  • government relies on land sales for revenue
  • July last year, 200,000 people marched to voice their dissatisfaction over the widening gap between rich and poor and the high property prices.
  • Welfare spending has doubled since 1997
Mark Roper

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

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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,
Mark Roper

Why Ending Extreme Poverty Isn't Good Enough - Businessweek - 0 views

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poverty and inequality research

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  • At this year’s spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF, the world’s global finance ministers signed up to an ambitious target for progress against poverty. “We believe that we have a historic opportunity to end extreme poverty within a generation,”
  • As recently as 1990, more than two-fifths of the population of the developing world lived in extreme poverty, and even today, the proportion remains close to one-fifth.
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Embedding Critical Thinking Throughout PBL_0 - 0 views

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critical_thinking project_based_learning webinar pbl training pedagogy questioning strategies critical thinking question

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    A webinar looking at Critical Thinking approaches to Problem Based Leanring
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Watershed Project: Craft the Driving Question - YouTube - 0 views

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youtube questioning pedagogy

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    Watershed Project: Craft the Driving Question
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