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World poverty rate is shrinking rapidly: Study

March 19, 2013

The brighter global picture is the result of international and national aid and development projects.

According to a new groundbreaking academic study, some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor. The study has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. Oxford University’s poverty and human development initiative report predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates.

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Analysis, Economy, Globalism, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Economic shift to the east revealed in global night light patterns

March 15, 2013

Night lights

How is light distribution of light across the planet changing over time? Light produced by a society is closely correlated with its economic status. Rich developed countries tend to be brighter at night than poor developing ones.

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Analysis, Globalism, Latest Trend, Money Talk

U.S. wealth inequality is extreme by global standards

March 14, 2013

You probably took away a couple facts if you watched Poltizane’s viral video on U.S. wealth inequality. America’s rich claim an even more mind-bogglingly huge share of the nation’s wealth than they do of its income, and most people in this country would like them to have less of it.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Globalism, Latest Trend

Global slavery, the chilling statistics

March 8, 2013

Migrant laborers work late into the evening at a brick kiln in central India.

The lifetime profit on a brickmaking slave in Brazil is $8,700, and $2,000 in India. Sexual slavery brings the slave’s owner $18,000 over the slave’s working life in Thailand, and $49,000 in Los Angeles. These are some chilling statistics on global slavery. (Infographic)

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Analysis, Business, Globalism, Latest Trend, Music, Science & Technology News

Global music sales growing for first time this century

February 28, 2013

In 2012, global music sales rose by 0.3 percent to $16.5 billion. This marks the first good year for the music industry since 1999.The music industry’s 21st century renaissance comes down to four factors: Better mobile technology, a growing global middle class, more music-listening options, and an effective crackdown on piracy that is making paid music a more attractive option.

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Analysis, Business, Globalism, Internet, Latest Trend

Ecommerce sales topped $1 trillion in 2012: Study

February 13, 2013

Asia-Pacific surpasses North America to become world’s No. 1 market for B2C ecommerce sales.

B2C ecommerce sales grew 21.1% to top $1 trillion for the first time in 2012, according to new global estimates by eMarketer.

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Analysis, Education, Globalism, Internet, New Viewpoints, Science & Technology News

Eight brilliant people talk about the future of online education

January 31, 2013

Online education will have an enormous transformative impact on billions of people around the world.

The single most important technological development of the millennium is the advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs). The first reason it is so important is the enormously transformative impact MOOCs can have on literally billions of people in the world. And the second reason is for the equally disruptive effect MOOCs will inevitably have on the global education industry.

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Global mobile phone shipments hit 1.6 billion on 2012

January 28, 2013

In 2012, global phone shipments hit 1.6 billion units, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, with Samsung shipping a massive 396.5 million phones last year.

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Analysis, Business, Food, Globalism

Ending the global food crisis – we just need to make use of what we have

January 14, 2013

We could double our food supply just by making farming, shipping, and cooking more efficiently.

By 2075 the global population is set to hit 9.5 billion. It is widely assumed the world will eventually run out of food. According to one UN study, we will need to increase agricultural production 70% by the middle of the century, if we’re to cater to all the expected bellies.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Science & Technology News

By 2020 a billion entrepreneurs will be women

January 4, 2013

“The third billion”

Globally, there are 380 million entrepreneurs today. For every 19 people you meet – one will be an entrepreneur. What are the other 18 doing? What are they doing that makes money without them creating/inventing opportunities? One might think they all have jobs, but they don’t – only 61% of world’s population have any sort of a job.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

Entering the Era of Global Mandates

December 28, 2012

Futurist Thomas Frey: The year is 2018 and the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the organization charged with selecting the winner of the famous Nobel Peace Prize, has changed their process. They’ve decided to host a global election to allow the people of the world to decide which of the candidates is the most deserving.

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Global Wi-Fi shipments reached 5 billion in 2012, will quadruple by 2017

December 27, 2012

In 2012, total cumulative global Wi-Fi-enabled device shipments reached five billion, according to ABI Research. And the pace of innovation isn’t slowing, with new Wi-Fi protocols rolling out in 2013 and close to 20 billion WiFi-enabled devices predicted to be in the market by 2017.

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