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BBC - Future - Science & Environment - Is world peace possible? - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...121109-is-world-peace-possible Peace BBC Video cognitive_science conflict_&_peace
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  • Mark Roper on 22 Apr 13
     
    Psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker at Harvard University thinks it is completely conceivable that wars between countries might go the way of slave auctions, debtors' prisons and other barbaric customs.
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Hong Kong's human battery hens: Claustrophobic images show how slum families squeeze th... - 1 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...-lives-tiniest-apartments.html poverty and inequality hong kong research
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  • Paul Bentham on 27 Sep 13
     
    Daily article from the UK on Hong Kong cage homes.
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Poverty: Growth or safety net? | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...m-first-governments-must-agree 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)
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Hong Kong government sets first poverty line - Channel NewsAsia - 0 views

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  • 1.31 million people or 19.6 per cent of the city's population are now classified as poor

  • HONG KONG:

  • he Hong Kong government recently set its first threshold to define poverty in the territory.
  • pete sims on 28 Oct 13
     
    "The government-appointed Commission on Poverty has set Hong Kong's first poverty line at half of the median monthly household income"
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Voices of Youth - 0 views

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  • Paul Bentham on 18 Nov 13
     
    Unicef website highlighting different ways that young people can do things.
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