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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Measuring Poverty (9): Absolute and Relative Poverty Lines
There are many ways you can measure how many people in a country are poor. Quite common is the use of a so-called poverty line. First you decide what you mean by poverty – for instance an income that’s insufficient … Continue reading
The Causes of Wealth Inequality (6): Minimum Wage Decline and Tax Policy
This post picks up where some previous posts investigating the possible causes of wealth or income inequality left off (see here, here, here, here and here). In those previous posts we identified the following causes: globalization (i.e. outsourcing, trade liberalization) … Continue reading
Posted in causes of income inequality, data, economics, equality, law, poverty, statistics, work
Tagged causes of inequality, income inequality, inflation, minimum wage, progressive taxation, taxation, taxing the rich, u.s.
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Human Rights Maps (85): Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums
Almost 1 billion people live in slums. That’s one third of global city dwellers. From a human rights perspective, slums pose a variety of problems: the rights to housing and healthcare (art. 25 of the Universal Declaration) are only the … Continue reading
Posted in housing, human rights maps, poverty
Tagged human rights, map, mapping, maps, overpopulation, slum, urbanization
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Statistical Jokes (12): Birthdays Are Healthy
Again, a funny mistake rather than a joke: “It is proven that the celebration of birthdays is healthy. Statistics show that those people who celebrate the most birthdays become the oldest”, S. den Hartog, Ph D. Thesis, Universtity of Groningen. … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, health, statistical jokes, statistics
Tagged humor, joke, life expectancy, omitted variable bias
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Human Rights Ads (46): Child Soldiers
(source) More on child soldiers. More on children’s rights in general.
Posted in human rights ads, war
Tagged ad, advert, advertising, child soldiers, children's rights, human rights ad, violence, war
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The Causes of Human Rights Violations (20): Stereotype Threat, Ctd.
In a previous post about the stereotype threat, I defined it as follows: the threat of stereotypes about one’s capacity to succeed at something reduces the chances of success; when the belief that people like you (African-Americans, women, etc) are … Continue reading
The Causes of Poverty (35): The Membership Theory of Poverty
When you read about the causes of poverty you’ve probably convinced yourself that there are causes, and that the poor don’t have only themselves to blame. What you’re most likely to find are the following causes: culture (for example the … Continue reading
Posted in causes of poverty, economics, equality, housing, poverty, trade, work
Tagged affirmative action, associational redistribution, causes of poverty, freedom of association, hereditary poverty, membership theory of poverty, peer pressure, poverty trap, resource curse, role models, sociology
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The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (41): Arrested for Kissing in Public
A friend just told me that his flatmate, a British citizen named Ayman Najafi, is facing a month in jail and deportation for allegedly kissing someone in a Dubai restaurant. I met Ayman a couple months ago in Dubai and … Continue reading
Posted in law, most absurd human rights violations
Tagged arbitrary arrest, dubai, kiss, kissing in public, morality, prudery
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Political Graffiti (96): Ammunition Crossing
(source, source) Something on the arms trade here, here and here. More political graffiti here.
