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BBC News - Uneven progress of UN Millennium Development Goals - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/world-11364717 IB Geography Wealth and Disparity MDG
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  • World leaders are descending on the UN headquarters in New York for a display of commitment to reduce sharply global poverty and hunger. The summit aims to take stock of progress on eight UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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BP oil spill timeline | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ill-timeline-deepwater-horizon IB Geography Hazards Oceans Resources Global Interactions Timeline
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      This case study links to many objectives in several units including Hazards, Coasts, Resource Consumption, Global Interactions.
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In Nigeria, a Preview of an Overcrowded Planet - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...-of-an-overcrowded-planet.html IB Geography Populations in Transition
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  • fertility rates
  • eversing longstanding policies
  • are promoting smaller families as a key to economic salvation,
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  • sixth most populous nation with 167 million people,
  • “If you don’t take care of population, schools can’t cope, hospitals can’t cope, there’s not enough housing — there’s nothing you can do to have economic development.”
  • swelling ranks of unemployed youths
  • 5.5 last year from 6.8 in 1975
  • will account for more than a third by 2100
  • 50 percent for people in urban areas ages 15 to 24 — driving crime and discontent.
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