The World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) – a new visualization tool to measure marginalization To coincide with the launch of the UN Secretary-General’s Education First initiative, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Team will launch a new interactive website tomorrow – the World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE). In an exclusive preview for this blog, the Report’s director Pauline Rose explains what WIDE shows and why it is important. I am delighted that the UN Secretary-General is putting Education First by launching his new initiative for education. Three years before the Education for All deadline, it is a much needed push to get more children into school and ensure they learn – especially for the poor and marginalized. In order to design policies to reach the marginalized, it is vital to know who they are and where they live. WIDE paints an overall picture showing that much remains to be done to make access to education more equitable. WIDE provides vivid visualizations that enable you to look beyond the averages. Like this: Like Loading...
MacroEconomics Glossary ability-to-pay principle the view that those with greater income should pay more in taxes than those with less income. (14) absolute advantage a situation in which a person or country is more efficient at producing a good in comparison with another person or country. (17) accounting profits total revenue minus total costs where total costs exclude the implicit opportunity costs; this is the definition of profits usually reported by firms. (9) ad valorem tariff a tax on imports evaluated as a percentage of the value of the import. (18) ad valorem tax a tax that is proportional to the value of expenditures. (7) adverse selection in insurance markets, a situation in which the people who choose to buy insurance will be the riskiest group in the population; analogous situations apply in other markets. (13) aggregate demand the total demand for goods and services by consumers, businesses, government, and foreigners. (19) asset something of value owned by a person or a firm. (24)
Poverty Facts and Stats This figure is based on purchasing power parity (PPP), which basically suggests that prices of goods in countries tend to equate under floating exchange rates and therefore people would be able to purchase the same quantity of goods in any country for a given sum of money. That is, the notion that a dollar should buy the same amount in all countries. Hence if a poor person in a poor country living on a dollar a day moved to the U.S. with no changes to their income, they would still be living on a dollar a day. The new poverty line of $1.25 a day was recently announced by the World Bank (in 2008). For many years before that it had been $1 a day. The new figures from the World Bank therefore confirm concerns that poverty has not been reduced by as much as was hoped, although it certainly has dropped since 1981. However, it appears that much of the poverty reduction in the last couple of decades almost exclusively comes from China:
Issues | Social Perspective on Development Poverty Eradication Poverty entails more than the lack of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Its manifestations include hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion as well as the lack of participation in decision-making. Various social groups bear disproportionate burden of poverty. The World Social Summit identified poverty eradication as an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of mankind and called on governments to address the root causes of poverty, provide for basic needs for all and ensure that the poor have access to productive resources, including credit, education and training. More about Poverty Eradication A social perspective on development requires addressing poverty in all its dimensions. A social perspective on poverty should contribute to the debate on the effectiveness and limitations of current poverty reduction strategies. Social Integration Publication
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