Le détail à valeur monumentale – 4 anecdotes interculturelles riches d’enseignement Turner, Mortlake Terrace, 1826. Le détail du petit chien noir apporte un équilibre remarquable en contrastant la luminosité de l’ensemble. Masquez-le avec le doigt et vous verrez combien le tableau perd en intensité. Le chien est d’ailleurs collé sur la toile et a été ajouté ultérieurement sur la toile. Un détail qui n’en est pas un Il suffit parfois d’un détail pour établir ou anéantir sa crédibilité, son autorité, la confiance, la relation interpersonnelle, et par conséquent pour décider du succès ou de l’échec d’un projet bien plus vaste. Un détail est la partie d’un ensemble. Mais quand le détail se rapporte à une dimension culturelle, il devient difficile à percevoir. Nous avons besoin de retours d’expérience et de grilles de lecture au sujet de ces détails à valeur monumentale. Cas 1 – Des Français en Norvège Situation Des Français se déplacent en Norvège pour présenter leur projet de coopération au partenaire local. Le détail interculturel - Tes mains. Pour prolonger Le temps passe.
We Mapped the Uninsured. You'll Notice a Pattern. States That Expanded Medicaid Are Outlined in Black Two years into Obamacare, clear regional patterns are emerging about who has health insurance in America and who still doesn’t. The remaining uninsured are primarily in the South and the Southwest. These trends emerged in an analysis we undertook with the help of two organizations that are closely monitoring the progress of the health law. “This year it’s more of a state-specific story,” said Ed Coleman, the director of data and analytics at Enroll America, an organization devoted to finding uninsured people and signing them up for insurance. The incremental changes in our map are consistent with other data. Medicaid expansion continues to be a huge predictor of how many people remain uninsured in a given state. In 2013, there were only 10 states where the percentage of residents who lacked health insurance was lower than 9 percent. In 2015, Pennsylvania and Indiana also expanded their Medicaid programs. Politics matters.
The World's Richest and Poorest Countries of 2016 | Global Finance Magazine What does it mean for a nation to be rich or poor at a time of global pandemic, high inflation and geopolitical tensions? GDP per capita adjusted for relative purchasing power gives us an idea, albeit an imperfect one. If we simply consider a nation's gross domestic product—the sum of all goods and services produced by a country during one year—then we would have to conclude that the richest nations are exactly the ones with the largest GDP: United States, China, Japan, Germany. But how could the economies, for example, of Singapore or Luxembourg ever match that of such powerhouses when they are no more than small dots on the world map? Another problem with GDP is that it does not measure income inequality, that is, how a country's riches are distributed among the population. Because energy and food are essential goods with few substitutes, higher prices are particularly painful for low-income households. Source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook April 2023.
Map: Here's how much each country spends on food When droughts or crop failures cause food prices to spike, many Americans barely notice. The average American, after all, spends just 6.6 percent of his or her household budget on food consumed at home. (If you include eating out, that rises to around 11 percent.) Americans spend a smaller share of their income on food than anyone In Pakistan, by contrast, the average person spends 47.7 percent of his or her household budget on food consumed at home. The US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service keeps tabs on household expenditures for food, alcohol, and tobacco around the world. Americans, it turns out, spend a smaller share of their income on food than anyone else — less even than Canadians or Europeans or Australians: Note that the map above is based on data for food consumed at home — the USDA doesn't offer international comparisons for eating out, unfortunately. Below is a chart showing numbers for a handful of select countries. There are a few notable points here:
Leadership Styles Around The World Different cultures can have radically different leadership styles, and international organizations would do well to understand them. British linguist Richard D. Lewis charted these differences in his book "When Cultures Collide," first published in 1996 and now in its third edition, and he teaches these insights in seminars with major corporate clients. From structured individualism in the U.S. to ringi-sho consensus in Japan, the charts seem intuitively correct, if not unilaterally true across a country. Lewis acknowledges the risks of dealing in stereotypes: "Determining national characteristics is treading a minefield of inaccurate assessment and surprising exception. He argues that these patterns won't change any time soon: "Even in countries where political and economic change is currently rapid or sweeping, deeply rooted attitudes and beliefs will resist a sudden transformation of values when pressured by reformists, governments or multinational conglomerates." crossculture.com
The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares How much extra money a county causes children in poor families to make, compared with children in poor families nationwide. Manhattan is very bad for income mobility for children in poor families. It is better than only about 7 percent of counties. Location matters – enormously. But even Putnam County is below the national average. These findings, particularly those that show how much each additional year matters, are from a new study by Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren that has huge consequences on how we think about poverty and mobility in the United States. Consider Manhattan, the focus of this articleour best guess for where you might be reading this article. It’s among the worst counties in the U.S. in helping poor children up the income ladder. Here are the estimates for how much 20 years of childhood in Manhattan adds or takes away from a child’s income (compared with an average county), along with the national percentile ranking for each. For poor kids For average-income kids
Top 10 Countries using Gold Jewellery We know Egyptian pharaohs were buried wearing it and the extremely wealthy in Ancient Rome donned it too, but while many in the west today look at Gold primarily as a safe haven investment, gold jewelry remains a very important part of several cultures, often for reasons tied to its value as an investment. In fact, jewelry represents the greatest demand for gold, followed by retail investment (bars and coins), the net official sector (central banks) and industrial fabrication. (See also, What Drives The Price Of Gold?) Here are the top 10 countries with the highest gold jewelry consumption in 2015 and Q2 2016: Source: GFMS Gold Survey 2016 Source: GFMS Gold Survey 2016 Q2 Update and Outlook (The World Gold Council, a market development organization backed by the gold industry, publishes a similar ranking, and while the some of the figures differ, their top gold jewelry consumers ranking closely resembles that of Thomson Reuters and their analysts )
Journée mondiale de l’alimentation : le dilemme des prix agricoles Le lien entre sécurité alimentaire et niveau des prix agricoles fait l’objet d’un intense débat parmi les économistes du développement. Lorsque les prix alimentaires sont élevés, les consommateurs sont touchés, l’accès à la nourriture diminue. Lorsque les prix agricoles s’effondrent, les agriculteurs ne gagnent pas suffisamment pour investir sur leur exploitation et produire davantage ; la disponibilité de nourriture est compromise. Accès versus disponibilité : la Journée mondiale de l’alimentation, le 16 octobre, offre l’occasion de revenir sur cette apparente contradiction. Un premier constat s’impose. Evolution des prix alimentaires internationaux en valeur réelle et de la prévalence de la sous-alimentation dans les régions en développement Des chercheurs ont poussé plus loin le raisonnement en prenant en compte les répercussions des prix agricoles sur l’ensemble de l’économie, via le marché du travail. Commentaires : Excellent article. Oui cette journée mondiale serait la bienvenue !
The Lewis Model Modern Slavery - knoema.com According to Walk Free Foundation there are an estimated 29.8 million people enslaved around the world. The countries with the highest numbers of enslaved people are India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh. Taken together, these countries account for 76% of enslaved people around the world. In 2013, modern slavery takes many forms, and is known by many names: slavery, forced labour or human trafficking. The Global Slavery Index provides a quantitative ranking of 162 countries around the world according to the estimated prevalence of slavery, that is, the estimated percentage of enslaved people in the national population at a point in time. Access database: Global Slavery Index 2013 Loading...