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Category Archives: Inequality
Estimating welfare: another measure
New NBER paper Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time by Charles Jones and Peter Klenow looks interesting. They propose a new summary statistic for a nation’s flows of welfare that combines data on consumption, leisure, inequality, and mortality. They … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Jones, economics, GDP, human wellbeing, NBER, Peter Klenow
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How resilient is the Pakistan government to floods?
Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, author of many books on the geopolitics of central Asia, writes about the continuing floods in Pakistan in the New York Review of Books. He argues that the floods have the potential to further weaken the … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality, Vulnerability
Tagged Ahmed Rashid, disaster sociology, natural disaster, Pakistan, Rashid
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Four short links to new papers
Four interesting new papers – Parks & Poverty, Pleistocene extinctions, Evosystem services, and making better assessments 1) Parks can help local people. Protected areas reduced poverty in surrounding areas in Costa Rica and Thailand by K.S. Andam and other in … Continue reading
Conservation Social Science
Conservation Biology has published three ‘virtual issues’ of Conservation Biology for the International Year of Biodiversity. The issues each include 10-15 previously published articles from Conservation Biology, but access to these articles is now free of charge. The virtual issues … Continue reading
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Tagged co-management, conservation biology, coral reefs, Fikret Berkes, Josh Cinner, social science, Tim Daw, Tim Holland
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Mapping segregation and integration
On radicalcartography Bill Rankin has posted some interesting and pretty maps of urban segregation in The cartography of segregation. He writes: Nearly every U.S. city is radically (and disturbingly) segregated, with stark divides of race, ethnicity, and class. I’ve been … Continue reading
Partial success in reducing global maternal death rate
Globally maternal deaths are decreasing. The rate at which mothers die during childbirth has been reduced by about 40% since 1980, but this is not enough to meet the Millennium Development goal of reducing maternal mortality 75% from 1990 levels … Continue reading
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Tagged map, maternal health, Millennium Development goals, public health
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Cochabamba picking up after Copenhagen
The Bolivian city of Cochabamba will host what is called “The Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth” writes Sarah van Gelder in YES! Magazine. Once a pivotal popular struggle arena against water privatization (see e.g. … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality, Reorganization
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How much is African poverty really falling?
Martin Ravallion, Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank,responds to Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin’s NBER paper that estimates a decline in African poverty. He agrees that poverty is decreasing, but believes they are overstating their case. … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, economics, income data, Martin Ravallion, poverty, Sala-i-Martin
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Climate vs. Tobacco
Tobacco and public health researcher Maria Nilsson and others have a Comment in the Lancet Climate policy: lessons from tobacco control (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61959-0) in which they compare the policy response to the public health problems of tobacco to climate policy: Controlling … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Inequality
Tagged climate change, Maria Nilsson, tobacco
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Agro-colonialism and/or Agricultural development?
The New York Times Magazine has an article by Andrew Rice Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? on new mega-investments in agricultural land in Africa. This type of activity featured in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment‘s TechnoGarden scenario as something … Continue reading