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The world A jungle where only the law of the strongest holds? A mosaic of compatible cultures? A lonely planet undergoing a climate change that leaderships are ignoring? A volcano just before a global democratic revolution? Surely, an interesting place to observe, interpret, understand, manage, and change.
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Hierarchy structures in world trade
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World leadership: a survey of opinions U.S. is unquestionably perceived to be the leading world power, and is followed at a distance by China; however U.S. will lose its currently undisputed role as the number one world power by the year 2020. This is the opionion of a large sample of citizens in Brazil, China,Germany, France, the United Kingdom, India, Japan, Russia and the U.S. which give answers on key issues of the future.
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Climate change: the facts Hundreds of major scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been working on climate change assessment on three fields: the assessment of the scientific evidence of the threat, the evaluation of impact and the mitigation strategy. Here you are the summary results of their evidence-based, consensus-based reports, which have been the reason for the Nobel Prize 2008 to be given to IPCC. The scientific evidence of the threat: Report released on 2 February 2007 The evaluation of impact: Report Mitigation of Climate Change: Report Earlier judgements: the 2001 Executive summary report
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The decisions taken at the Bali Conference on climate change
(Dec. 2007) Responding to the findings of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and that delay in reducing emissions significantly constrains opportunities to achieve lower stabilization levels and increases the risk of more severe climate change impacts Recognizing that deep cuts in global emissions will be required to achieve the ultimate objective of the Convention and emphasizing the urgency to address climate change as indicated in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, The Conference of the Parties decides to launch a comprehensive process to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention through long-term cooperative action, now, up to and beyond 2012. Web page with further PDF to download
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Climate change and behavioural economics The standard economic approach to climate change policy, with its almost exclusive emphasis on rational responses to monetary incentives, is seriously flawed. The new paradigm in economics shed light on how to cope with climate change. Humans are unique among animal species in their ability to cooperate across cultures, geographical space and generations. Tapping into this uniquely human attribute, and understanding how cooperation is enforced, holds the key to limiting the potentially calamitous effects of global climate change.
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How market-based mechanisms for carbon emission trading work
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Solving global problems by global networks International networks of politicians, scientists, civil society to tackle difficult global problems, rating official and real policies of nation states and private firms. A challenging proposal by J-F. Rischard in an interview to OpenDemocracy.
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| Essay: Climate change from the point of view of business The insurance and re-insurance industry has key data to evalutate the costs of climate change. SwissRe, a major re-assurance firm, has been monitoring climate change for years. 2006 report: The Effects of Climate Change - Storm Damage in Europe on the Rise
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| Economic data: Human development index (162 countries) Rich reports of reflections and data.
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Economic
data: Assessing the sustainability of the world 
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data: World Economic and Social Survey by UN
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Reinventing UNCTAD In the dialectics among international organization as WTO, World Bank, ILO, etc. UNCTAD could find a new role. Essay from the South Centre
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data: The shadow economy: an estimation for 145 economies
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data: Worldwide quality-of-life index (2005)
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data: Long-term macroeconomic data for 136 countries and 42 years
The most user-friendly distribution of the main international database on GDP components (consumption, investment, public expenditure and net exports) for 136 countries and 42 years. Excellent for international comparisons, long-term growth enquiries and business cycle analysis, since it provides real values at constant prices comparable over time and countries.
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Global air pollution map
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Global population density map
Explanation and country by country maps
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Atlas of a changing planet
+100 sites as they are now and as they were
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| Essay: Human rights respect reports 2004 - US opinion on all countries in the world, except US 2004 - China's opinion on US respect of human rights
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| Essay: UN Global ecosystems assessment report (2005) A lot of data and theses over the present and the future, represented in four main scenarios: Global Orchestration –
This scenario depicts a globally connected society that focuses
on global trade and economic liberalization and takes a reactive
approach to ecosystem problems but that also takes strong steps
to reduce poverty and inequality
and to invest in public goods such as infrastructure and education.
Economic growth in this scenario is the highest of the four scenarios,
while it is assumed to have the lowest population in 2050. No scenario represents business as usual, although all begin from current conditions and trends. Essay [6.6 MB] Other assessments
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| Debate site: World cities management City Mayors examines and illustrate how city mayors, and others who govern metropolitan areas, develop innovative solutions to long-standing urban problems such as housing, transport, education and employment, but also how they meet the latest environmental, technological, social and security challenges which affect the well-being of their citizens.
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| Debate site: How to approach difficult conflicts in the world Beyond intractability of political, ethnical and economic conflicts.
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Innovative global funding sources for Millennium Development
Goals In order to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals, substantial additional external funding needs to be mobilized.
Estimates differ, but a ‘ballpark’ figure is an In the paper the authors consider seven new sources:
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data: Real world elasticity in
144 countries - Price elasticities and income elasticities of consumption
classes (food and non-food) - Food share on household budget
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data: Exports, imports, trade balances for 181 countries - a time-series
Absolute figures, shares in world trade, rankings.
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data: 2004 Labour market levels
and trends in all countries of the world: employment
and unemployment in the general
population, the youth, the women
MS Excel [1200 KB]
Economic
data analysis: Skilled
and unskilled wages in a globalizing world, 1968-1998
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| Economic
data: Capital stock: a time-series
by country
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| Economic
data: How the world is coping with its main challenges according
to 2004 GGI judgement and data
PDF [1000 KB]
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| Economic
data: World energy demand and supply 2006
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| Economic data: Inflation rates for 170 countries (1970-1996) Yearly dynamics of inflation is presented in one sheet. Is price stability a common feature of the world economies? Is hyperinflation a disease that hurts some groups of countries more than others? Discover the answers to these and many other macroeconomics questions just analysing the real data.
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| Map:
Global atlas of human impact on the planet
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Complexity meets development - A Felicitous Encounter on
the Road of Life The whole number of Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems where the paper appeared first. Economic data: 93 Food products prices in 198 countries (1985-2001) The price of sugar, milk, meat and many more foodstuffs. Ideal to compare price structures over countries and time. By transforming these local-currency data in dollars, you can test the "one price law", according to which any good has the same price worldwide, after taken into account nominal exchange rates. Comparing with world wages, you get the real purchasing power of people in food terms.
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| Economic data: Gender statistics from all over the world
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| Economic
data: World trade statistics
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| Economic data: Origins and destinations in world trade - Trade flows over time
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| Economic data: Population forecast for all countries in the world (total, urban, rural, density,...) as well as a complete 2004 State of the World population (health, indicators,...)
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| Economic data: Historical data about population, GDP and per-capita GDP in all countries of the world since centuries ago
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State of the World 2003 The Worldwatch Institute provides compelling, accessible, and fact-based analysis of critical global issues, with a special attention to the environment. Its flagship publication is this report, whose edition of 2003
can be downloade for free from the following page:
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| Economic
data: Environmental respect data: the number of ISO14000 certified
firms in 98 countries - a time-series
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| Economic data: Composition of public expenditure (education, health, defence...) - 69 countrie (1975-1985)
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World trends A collection of world change trends in economy, society, cultures.
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| Economic data: Gross domestic expenditure on R&D by source of funds in 71 countries
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| Economic
data: The presence and employment of SMEs
in 119 countries
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| Economic
data: AIDS / HIV worldwide: a time-series
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| Economic data: Health and disease statistics worldwide
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| Economic
data: Telephone calls country by country: a long time series
Minutes of conversation at the phone between couple of countries (193 available nations) from 1983 to 1995. |
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Economic data: Comparable wages for 162 jobs in 132 countries The MS Excel file with a user-friendly interface of the excellent dataset by Freeman - Oostendorp. Long-term time-series from 1983 to 1999. This data set allows for comparison of wages across countries for the same job, over time, underlining the differences between skilled and unskilled works. MS Excel [2.9 MB]
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| Economic data: Productivity in 99 countries (1950-2000) Direct link to Groningen Growth and Development Centre and The Conference Board, Total Economy Database, February 2004, at http://www.ggdc.net, where you'll find a lot of useful industry and macro data.
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| Economic
data: World primary commodity prices (54 time series) - Agricolture
Raw Materials, Metals (e.g. Zinc, Iron, Aluminium, Copper), Fertilizers,
Petroleum, Natural Gas, etc. (1980-2001)
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| Economic data: Health and disease statistics worldwide
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| Book:
Economic
Democracy; The Political Struggle for the 21st Century In this book, Dr. J.W. Smith states that IMF/World Bank structural adjustments continually lowers the wages of weak nations and thus exponentially increases the transfer of their wealth to the imperial-centers-of-capital. Instead of increasing the wages of the poorly-paid to the level of the well-paid, the wages of the well-paid are being lowered to the level of the low-paid. Four primary rules and 15 subsidiary rules of Democratic Cooperative
Capitalism are presented as alternatives for quickly developing
the world and alleviating poverty.
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Economic data: Cocoa beans world prices (1971 - 2001) MS Excel [5 KB]
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Economic data: Coffee world prices (1982 - 2000) Look at the difference in prices for consumers in importing countries and for growers in exporters country. Seasonality analysis feasible, since they are monthly data. MS Excel [80 KB]
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| Essay:
Energy technologies for the 21st century
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| Essay: 2004 World Population report Not only numbers but also reflections on poverty alleviation, women’s rights and universal access to reproductive health.
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| Economic
data: Updated macroeconomic and industrial data for all over the
world An excellent source of analyses and data, aimed at expressing country risk rating evaluations.
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| Essay: The State of the World's Children (2005) Links to international political data: Current election results all over the world
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| Links to international data: World data (1926-1944)
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