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Reports on Poverty
To find out where money can be most effectively spent in the
fight against poverty, we need to have access to a great deal
of information about the prevalence and shape of poverty in
the world. Luckily there is a wealth of such information available
on the internet if you know where to look. Here are a number
of key reports and sources of data. While there are many subtle
complexities behind world poverty, these reports have been
designed to be accessible and include useful summaries of
their findings in addition to their detailed analysis.
Reports:
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Human Development Report
The Human Development Report is an extensive
document put together each year by the United Nations Development
Program (UNDP). Despite its
scope, it is surprisingly accessible to the interested reader.
It features a significant amount of analysis on the year's theme
(such as 'water' or 'trade') and provides a detailed body of statistics
on the state of human development in all the world's countries,
It does this via statistics in different areas of life and an
overall Human Development Index which is the weighted average
of its measures in health, education and income. As well as the
reports themselves, the UNDP provide direct
access to some of their most interesting statistical data.
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World Health Report
The World Health Report
is published annually by the World Health Organization (WHO).
It discusses major global health issues organized around the
year's theme. They also have up to date statistical
information on world health.
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The Copenhagen Consensus
The
Copenhagen Consensus is a process for establishing a set of
global priorities. Every
two years, experts in fields such as global health, education,
and conflict prepare reports on how their problems can be most
efficiently addressed, and these proposals are then ranked by
a panel of leading economists.
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The State of the World's Children
The
State of the World's Children is published annually by
the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
As the name suggests, it focuses on the global issues facing
children in the developing world.
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CIA World Factbook
The
CIA World Factbook contains detailed statistics about
all countries as well as aggregate statistics for the world
as a whole. It is not focused on poverty, but nevertheless
contains a wealth of comparative information.
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Gapminder
Gapminder is an organization
dedicated to development statistics. Their mission has two
parts. The first is to open up to the public the huge amount
of development data that has been gathered by the UN and other
publicly funded groups. The second is to present new ways
of easily understanding this complex data. They are doing
this via their online visualizing software, Trendalyzer,
which is a very useful tool for examining the state of the
world and its historical trends. Their excellent presentations
explain many of Trendalyzer's powerful features.
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Disease Control Priorities Project
The Disease Control Priorities
Project (DCPP) is a group dedicated to evidence based
research on priorities in global health. Their most useful
resource is probably their extensive
list of health interventions in the developing world and
their relative efficiencies. They also offer useful fact
sheets, and in-depth reports.
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WHO-CHOICE
WHO-CHOICE is a project run
by the World Health Organization, which assesses health care interventions
based on their cost-effectiveness. It is similar to the DCPP,
but has slightly different aims and methods.
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Nationmaster
Nationmaster
allows easy comparisons of different countries according to
a large set of statistics in health, economics, government,
and more.
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