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Étude : les effets du soutien scolaire précoce en littératie | Guitef
by FrancoisGuite
Une étude confirme les avantages d'une intervention hâtive aux premiers signes de difficulté en lecture.
2007
DEVELOPMENT: Aid "Dismally Slow" in Reaching Poorest
by wrijneveld
no. of ultra poor (<50ct/day) rising evan though total no. of poor is decreasing
Koonings: bringing politics into poverty
by wrijneveld
deel van serie rich menu for the poor. Argument to take political / power aspects more into account
Poverty status in Haiti
by wrijneveld
lots of good tables / graphs and comparisons with rest of caribean / LA
Stop Poverty With One Click!
by pokabudki
overty Facts and Stats
1. Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
2. The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world's countries) is less than the wealth of the world's three richest people combined.
3. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
4. Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen.
5. 51 percent of the world's 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations.
6. The wealthiest nation on Earth has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation.
7. The poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money.
8. 20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world's goods.
9. The top fifth of the world's people in the richest countries enjoy 82% of the expanding export trade and 68% of foreign direct investment — the bottom fifth, barely more than 1%.
10. In 1960, the 20% of the world's people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20% — in 1997, 74 times as muc
Child labour and society BLOG
by sadashivan
37% say poverty, 33% say Over populated family 10% poll for Government policy failure, 6% weak law to protect, 2% say parent's unemployment and 1% say high education and living cost. You too join the poll and give your valuable opinion. Say what you feel the cause; Add your poll what and who is responsible for the child labour.
MeCommerce
by erinmystic
For this nugget I focused on MeCommerce (http://mecommerce.goodstorm.com/). How do they get people to sell items on their site? First they attach the user by making it about the user. They share %50 of profits which seems as a fair amount. It is called MEcommerce which also makes it about the user. They emphasize being free and how easy it is to sign up. Also they show an example of a webpage with it set up. Though everything helps, probably the biggest motivator is money. The set allows the user to sell products relevant to their sites and get paid for them. MeCommerce seems to me to be a promising alternative to ads.
NYC Food Bank: Celebrities Against Hunger
by wiredsetman
In New York, there's more than just a digital divide. Dozens of Elderly citizens go to bed hungry each night. Poverty causes hunger and hunger causes poverty. Help mend the gap between the rich and poor by supporting the New York City Food Bank. These guys are doing it, so why aren't you? http://www.foodbanknyc.org/
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2006
90,000 children will be homeless in London this holiday
by Mal Burns
(via)
Dramatic figures and cause for concern. This is in Blair's Britain!
Our "Terrible" World
by SirSmitts
Opinion piece on how the world's problems are never any more or less profound at any given time in history, simply different. Discusses how people of all generations take the myopic viewpoint that the world is at it's worst point while they are alive simply because they are there to experience it
