Slicing the cake Latin America's progress in reducing poverty is starting to slow. For more video content from The Economist visit our website: http://econ.s...
Advances in poverty reduction in Latin America over the last decade and a half have been remarkable. With a $4 a day poverty line, the region’s populaAdvances in poverty reduction in Latin America over the last decade and a half have been remarkable. With a $4 a day poverty line, the region’s population living in poverty fell from 45 to 25 percent between 2000 and 2014; and with a stricter poverty line—$2.5 per day—from 28 to 14 percent. Three more facts show the depth of this improvement. First, with some variation, poverty fell in every country in the region; second, poverty did not increase between 2008 and 2010, the critical years of the global financial crisis; and third, despite a substantial deceleration in the region’s growth rate since 2011, poverty has not increased either. Mas ...
Unternehmensverantwortung, neudeutsch Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ist in aller Munde. In diesem animierten...
Unternehmensverantwortung, neudeutsch Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ist in aller Munde. In diesem animierten Videoclip wird den Fragen nachgegangen: ...
Ein Flüchtling, der jetzt in den USA lebt: Joseph Kim erzählt die Geschichte seines Lebens in Nordkorea während den...
Ein Flüchtling, der jetzt in den USA lebt: Joseph Kim erzählt die Geschichte seines Lebens in Nordkorea während den Jahren der Hungersnot. Er hat begonnen, s...
Of the recent changes that the human race has experienced, the increasing population numbers are especially dramatic...
Of the recent changes that the human race has experienced, the increasing population numbers are especially dramatic and worrying coupled with the frightenin...
Greece has been the poster child for European economic crisis, but former Prime Minister George Papandreou wonders...
Greece has been the poster child for European economic crisis, but former Prime Minister George Papandreou wonders if it's just a preview of what's to come. ...
Why is it that schools teach us WHAT we need to learn, without ever teaching us HOW? Memory and Speed Reading expert...
Why is it that schools teach us WHAT we need to learn, without ever teaching us HOW? Memory and Speed Reading expert Jonathan Levi takes us through his perso...
The program reports the committment of the Catholic Church and of the Assembly of the Churches in Syria facing the...
The program reports the committment of the Catholic Church and of the Assembly of the Churches in Syria facing the emergency of the Syrian refugees in the ne...
This plumber from NYC drove 50 miles in the rain to have sex with someone he believes is a 12-year-old girl. He may...
This plumber from NYC drove 50 miles in the rain to have sex with someone he believes is a 12-year-old girl. He may like to be called “Papi," Latin slang for...
"We ain't seen nothing yet when it comes to technology's impact on the labor force." Automation redefined blue...
"We ain't seen nothing yet when it comes to technology's impact on the labor force." Automation redefined blue collar employment and reshaped a global econom...