Archive for the ‘poverty alleviation’ Category

The Story of Stuff

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

A simple (to some degree simplistic), fun and overall worthwhile presentation on the cycle (or lack thereof) of consumer goods:

Story of Stuff

via DerStandard.at

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Gapminder - Presentations

Monday, January 28th, 2008

It’s been around for a while, but I still go back to gapminder.org to make sense of UN data in particular basic data relating to poverty, health, etc.

In particular, I got stuck exploring Human Development Trends, 2005 available in the Presentations section.

Be careful - the site is addictive!

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