Global Culture

Although there is plenty of debate regarding how useful the GDP is to measure the size of an economy, the following map shows an interesting way to appreciate the massive size of the United States economy in comparison to that of other countries, which can only hope to size against one of its states.

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The Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and a wide variety of organization and endorsed by an impressive list of international figures has launched the Vision of Humanity site.
Peace and sustainability are the cornerstones of humanity’s survival in the 21st century. The major challenges facing humanity today are [...]

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To assert that economists use statistics for the same reason that the military uses body-counts: to dehumanize the victims and make it easy to carry on with the task requires some guts, and this is the kind of language that The Big Sellout is not afraid to use. Of course when you have heavy-weights [...]

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Having a growing readership is very important to me. Knowing that people return to the blog after their first visit tells me the discussion continues to be relevant. The curse of technology is that there are many different metrics that attempt to provide an idea of how well a site is doing: pageviews, [...]

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According to the International Migration report from the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, in 2006 there were an estimated 190,634,000 immigrants around the world. That is close to 3% of the world population. As discussed in the south in the hearth of the north, over 61% are [...]

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If the post a brighter future revealed the possible destinations for the masses of migrants moving around the planet, this image from Natural Resources Conservation Service within the United States Department of Agriculture may tell us where they come from. A global population density map represents the number of people per square kilometer around [...]

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Observing this visualization produced by NASA the phrase “light at the end of the tunnel” acquires a new meaning when we consider that the usual flow of migrants typically goes from darker areas to those were light abounds. Whether the flow is from rural to urbanized areas or from the developing world to [...]

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