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• A Proposal to Reinvigorate Rust Belt Cities

  
  Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics — Authority: 540
  About a year ago, I wrote about the difference between Clevelands and Pittsburghs responses to brain drain, a rough economy, and their impotent positions within the economy. The "Brain Drain" is one of the large elements of this discussion, given its ability to steal away a communitys future. In a recent essay in ...
  9 hours ago

• About that coal in Kosovo (II)

  
  A Fistful Of Euros A Fistful Of Euros — Authority: 569
  A couple of years back, I wrote an article about Kosovo’s coal industry . Short version: Kosovo has lots of coal, and most of it is middle-quality lignite. But the mines suffer from a horrible lack of investment; many of them are still using thirty to forty year old equipment. So both output and quality are far ...
  2 days ago

• Trends in world GDPs

  
  Cybereconomics — Authority: 124
  Mark Perry has a graph on Carpe Diem that shows that the US has produced about 25% of the world GDP from 1969 until the present. Europes share has fallen, while the share due to Asia has rise, and both are also closing in to 25%. Europe will become increasingly less important in the world, while Asia will grow in ...
  6 days ago

• The Kids Arent Alright: Surveying Pakistans Youth

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 464
  A new survey of Pakistani youth shows why the country is Exhibit A for taking seriously the potent combination of demography and lack of education and employment. Funded by the British Council, the survey shows how Pakistans "youth bulge" can be both threat and opportunity. If it is coupled with investment in ...
  1 week ago

• the politics of counting immigrants

  
  Contexts Crawler — Authority: 125
  The Sacramento Bee  recently reported on a political battle unfolding over the 2010 Census that brings sociologists and demographers center stage.   The fight has begun over whether and how to count legal and illegal immigrants in the Census. The context:  Senator David Vitter of Louisiana wants only legal ...
  1 week ago

• Clinton is wrong about demography

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 596
  Yoram Ettinger, YNET On November 15, 2009, former President Clinton stated in Jerusalem: “Two things remain unchanged since 1993 – geography and demographics. Palestinians have more children than Israelis can have or import.” Clinton’s intentions are positive. However, he is mistaken and misleading, while ...
  1 week ago

• Publications: Civilian Protection/DRC, Humanitarian IT, Preparing for Future Humanitarian Impacts, Tibetan Diaspora, Women/Colombia

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 424
  Applying Technology to Crisis Mapping and Early Warning in Humanitarian Settings (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Sept. 2009) [text]Colombia: Displaced Women Demand Their Rights (Refugees International, Nov. 2009) [text]DR Congo: Protect Civilians and End Military Operations (Refugees International, Nov. 2009) ...
  1 week ago

• The Campus Beat: Using Blogs, Facebook, to Teach Environmental Security at West Point

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 464
  The lecture was only a few hours away. In desperation, I turned to Facebook . “Ive got just 50 minutes with the cadets at West Point today to talk water, conflict, and cooperation . What are the most compelling examples you would use to make both hard security and human security points, both threat and ...
  1 week ago

• Six Million Preventable Child Deaths…a Silent Emergency

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 452
  World Vision has launched a five-year global campaign to end massive “child rights violation” of child and infant death Every 3.5 seconds a child under five dies: 24,000 deaths a day; almost nine million a year – India shares the highest burden of 1.95 million under five deaths. A new World Vision report – ...
  1 week ago

• Russia’s Sisyphean Loop

  
  Sublime Oblivion — Authority: 452
  Anatoly Karlin @ www.SublimeOblivion.com PDF version | DOC version Russia’s Sisyphean Loop The Eternal Return to the Future? In this article I attempt to explain Russia’s historical cycles of failed Westernization and to project its future socio-political trajectory. First, I note the nature of ...
  1 week ago

• Wrong answer, wrong question

  
  Seoul Village — Authority: 123
  South Korea has a knack for experiencing spectacular social changes at a spectacular speed. Take denatality, for instance : Korea took over Japan in only a few years, with a major impact on the countrys profile and future (see " In 2050, almost 10% of Koreas population will not be Korean "). The reasons for this ...
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• £13 Billion per Year: What Immigration Costs the British Taxpayer

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 613
  Criminal immigrants held in British jails cost the taxpayer £283 million per year, new figures have revealed. This means that the annual total cost of immigration to the British taxpayer is now set at just over £13 billion per year. According to official figures revealed in Parliament, the bill for keeping foreign ...
  2 weeks ago

• the kids (of gays) are alright

  
  Contexts Crawler — Authority: 125
  A recent New York Times  article reported on some of the data that is known about gay and lesbian parenthood and how children of same-sex parents turn out.  The Williams Institute at UCLA finds that approximately 115,772 American same-sex couples have children.   Summarizing the state of the field: Until ...
  2 weeks ago

• Guest Contributor Elizabeth Leahy Madsen: Pakistan’s Demographic Challenge Is Not Just Economic

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 464
  In a meeting with business leaders in Lahore in late October, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pointedly warned of the potential economic impacts of Pakistan’s rapidly growing population : “There has to be…in any plan for your own economic future, a hard look at where you’re going to get the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reading Radar: The Youth Bulge Question

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 464
  Right now, Rich Cincotta is live on "PRB Discuss Online," answering the question, "Does a Young Age Structure Thwart Democratic Governments?" He is responding to reader questions like "Do Democratic governments being overcome by poverty and high unemployment rates have a chance to succeed" and "Why do you think ...
  2 weeks ago

• Welcome, all, during 2008-2009

  
  Grassroots Science — Authority: 93
  ClustrMaps Current Country Totals From 12 Nov 2008 to 12 Nov 2009 United States (US) 29,827 Canada (CA) 2,800 United Kingdom (GB) 2,602 India (IN) 1,181 Australia (AU) 977 Philippines (PH) 903 Singapore (SG) 413 France (FR) 411 Malaysia (MY) 399 Germany (DE) 380 Egypt (EG) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who wants to leave, to stay - net results by country

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 131
  My thanks to demography.matters for his one. Gallup did a large survey of where people would like to live covering 136 countries. The US came in number one. However, they also took into account people in individual countries who wanted to leave those countries and then expressed the net results in terms of the size ...
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• Sooner babies means more babies. Its a boom.

  
  Peter Martin — Authority: 548
  Great, eh? Australia is in the grip of its biggest-ever baby boom with a record 293,600 babies born last year - 11,400 more than the year before. Roughly one third - 94,700 - were born in NSW. Births in this state are climbing faster than in any state other than Western Australia, increasing 5.8 per cent ...
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• Ending Social Promotion Leads to Gains in NYC

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 761
  New evidence shows that ending social promotion – the practice of allowing students to advance a grade level without having mastered the content of their current grade – is having a positive result in student testing. A new study released on October 15th by the RAND corp., shows how New York City seventh graders ...
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• The Grim Reapers Road Map

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 559
  The Grim Reaper’s Road Map: An Atlas of Mortality in Britain , which came out last year, “analyses over 14 million deaths over the 24-year period 1981-2004 in Britain. It gives a comprehensive overview of the geographical pattern of mortality,” including all deaths and deaths from a number of different causes. ...
  2 weeks ago

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