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G A P M I N D E R: HOME

"This website, powered by Trendalyzer, enables you to explore the changing world from your own computer."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 roslings · education · analysis · anthropology · data · datamining · economics · development · economy · entrepreneurship · environment · psychology · society · sociology · software · statistics · poverty · population · politics

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PETER HITCHENS: North Korea, the last great Marxist bastion, is a real-life Truman show | the Daily Mail

"And the Dear Leader and his loyalists have no idea how they can secure the succession of the world's first Marxist-Leninist hereditary monarchy, a problem that looks rather urgent."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 government · politics · poverty · society · war · korea · north_korea · hitchens

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=486079&in_page_id=1811 - cached - mail it - history

Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Don't listen to what the rich world's leaders say - look at what they do

"Look at what is happening, right now, in the Philippines [...] just 16% of children between four and five months old are exclusively breastfed [...] As 70% of Filipinos have inadequate access to clean water Every year [...] some 16,000 Filipino children

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 globalization · health · life · politics · poverty · philippines · breastfeeding · children

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2095677,00.html - cached - mail it - history

Is this the world's most polluted river? | the Daily Mail

So dense is the carpet of refuse that the tiny wooden fishing craft which float through it are the only clue to the presence of water.

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 environment · nature · pollution · poverty · sustainability · earth · citarum · river · photos · photographs · 写真

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=460077&in_page_id=1811 - cached - mail it - history

Myths about the developing world (TEDTalks, Hans Rosling) - Google Video

20 minutes, very interesting visualizations

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 society · economy · economics · poverty · visualization · video · data · lecture · ted · Development · politics · world · for:mandrak

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080 - cached - mail it - history

UC Atlas of Global Inequality

"The Atlas of Global Inequality explores aspects of inequality using online, downloadable maps and graphics. All materials can be reproduced without charge if they are attributed to the UC Atlas of Global Inequality."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 society · economy · economics · poverty · world · money · trends · visualization · globalization · mapping · politics · sociology · reference

http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/ - cached - mail it - history

How the Middle Class Is Getting Screwed - New York Magazine

"An average CEO now gets paid several hundred times the salary of his average worker, a gap that’s an order of magnitude larger than it was in the seventies. In Japan, the ratio is just 11-to-1, and in Britain 22-to-1."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 america · society · economy · capitalism · politics · poverty

http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/26014/index.html - cached - mail it - history

Reason Magazine - Why Poor Countries Are Poor

"The clues lie on a bumpy road leading to the world's worst library."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 to_read · development · economy · politics · poverty · society

http://www.reason.com/news/show/33258.html?id=05dr3 - cached - mail it - history

The New Yorker: PRINTABLES

"If you think of insurance as producing wasteful consumption of medical services, then the fact that there are forty-five million Americans without health insurance is no longer an immediate cause for alarm."

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 analysis · essay · government · health · america · interesting · medicine · politics · poverty · economics · society · economy · healthcare · insurance

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050829fa_fact - cached - mail it - history

The Observer | World | Boom and bust: the 'baby losers' fight back

'Some talk of a war between the generations but we are not there yet,' said Chauvel. 'But the reality has been a massive pillaging of the resources of one generation by another.'

by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 france · society · money · economy · poverty

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1928446,00.html - cached - mail it - history

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