Comments on: Visualizing Global Inequality http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/08/31/visualizing-global-inequality/ coping with ecological suprise in a human dominated world Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:36:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Garry Peterson http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/08/31/visualizing-global-inequality/#comment-63476 Garry Peterson Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:08:40 +0000 http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/08/31/visualizing-global-inequality/#comment-63476 The GapMinder visualizations of the estimates of world income are nice. It would be great if inequality were in the gapminder/google dynamic visualizer. However, there are a lot of problems with the quality and comparability of inequality estimates from non-rich countries. The Gapminder visualizations are, I think, from Xavier Sala-I-Martin's 2006 paper - <a href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/qjec.2006.121.2.351" rel="nofollow">The World Distribution of Income: Falling Poverty and Convergence, Period!"</a> in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. I will post something on this paper in the future, as it is very interesting paper, which is also a bit controversial. The GapMinder visualizations of the estimates of world income are nice. It would be great if inequality were in the gapminder/google dynamic visualizer. However, there are a lot of problems with the quality and comparability of inequality estimates from non-rich countries.

The Gapminder visualizations are, I think, from Xavier Sala-I-Martin’s 2006 paper - The World Distribution of Income: Falling Poverty and Convergence, Period!” in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. I will post something on this paper in the future, as it is very interesting paper, which is also a bit controversial.

]]> By: Magnus Tuvendal http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/08/31/visualizing-global-inequality/#comment-63473 Magnus Tuvendal Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:29:51 +0000 http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/08/31/visualizing-global-inequality/#comment-63473 Gapminder do have a presentation (flash) on global income distribution. It is in default in Swedish but you can easily change language to english. http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/presentations/human-development-trends-2005.html Gapminder do have a presentation (flash) on global income distribution. It is in default in Swedish but you can easily change language to english.

http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/presentations/human-development-trends-2005.html

]]> By: Garry Peterson http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/08/31/visualizing-global-inequality/#comment-63250 Garry Peterson Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:10:25 +0000 http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/08/31/visualizing-global-inequality/#comment-63250 Gapminder is a good site, which we've mentioned <a href="http://rs.resalliance.org/index.php?s=gapminder" rel="nofollow">several times before</a>, but unfortunately it doesn't have data on global inequality. Gapminder is a good site, which we’ve mentioned several times before, but unfortunately it doesn’t have data on global inequality.

]]> By: vasra http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/08/31/visualizing-global-inequality/#comment-63220 vasra Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:26:38 +0000 http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/08/31/visualizing-global-inequality/#comment-63220 www.gapminder.org The best resource for historical time series data and future projections of income, lifetime expectancy, infant death, etc. http://www.gapminder.org

The best resource for historical time series data and future projections of income, lifetime expectancy, infant death, etc.

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