Sharing a Household: Household Composition and Economic Well-Being: 20072010, by Laryssa Mykyta and Suzanne Macartney, Issued June 2012. U.S. Census Bureau This report analyzes and describes household sharing, a process by which people join or combine households. Data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS ASEC) were used to… Continue Reading
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UN Conference on Sustainable Development Report – The future we want
The future we want, June 19, 2012 “We, the Heads of State and Government and high-level representatives, having met at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, with the full participation of civil society, renew our commitment to sustainable development and to ensuring the promotion of an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Report Shows Shared Households Increased 11.4 Percent from 2007 to 2010
News release: “In 2010, there were 22.0 million shared households in the United States, an 11.4 percent increase from 2007, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report. This total of shared households accounted for 18.7 percent of all households, up from 17.0 percent in 2007. The report, Sharing a Household: Household Composition and Economic… Continue Reading
Ecological Footprint and Investment in Natural Capital in Asia and the Pacific
Ecological Footprint and Investment in Natural Capital in Asia and the Pacific, June 2012 The Asia and Pacific region has some of the largest and most diverse ecosystems on earth. The Coral Triangle boasts an astonishing 3,000 species of fish and harbours 76% of the worlds coral species. In the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), 1,200… Continue Reading
Scientific American – How New York Beat Crime
Via Oxford University Press – How New York Beat Crime, by Franklin E. Zimring “For the past two decades New Yorkers have been the beneficiaries of the largest and longest sustained drop in street crime ever experienced by a big city in the developed world. In less than a generation, rates of several common crimes… Continue Reading
McKinsey – The world at work: Jobs, pay, and skills for 3.5 billion people
“Over the past three decades, as developing economies industrialized and began to compete in world markets, a global labor market started taking shape. As more than one billion people entered the labor force, a massive movement from farm to factory sharply accelerated growth of productivity and per capita GDP in China and other traditionally rural… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Reports Foreign-Born Households are Larger, Include More Children and Grandparents
“The U.S. Census Bureau reported today that foreign-born households are, on average, larger than native households, have more children under age 18, and are more likely to be multigenerational. The average size of foreign-born households (3.4 people) was larger than that of native-born households (2.5 people). About 62 percent of foreign-born family households included children… Continue Reading
World of Work Report 2012
“The World of Work Report 2012 provides a comprehensive analysis of recent labour market and social trends, assesses risks of social unrest and presents employment projections for the next five years. The report emphasizes that while employment has begun to recover slowly, job quality is deteriorating and there is a growing sense of unfairness. Moreover,… Continue Reading
Royal Society calls for a more equitable future for humanity
“Consumption levels between developed and developing nations must be rebalanced alongside a stabilisation of the worlds population by voluntary methods, according to a new report from the Royal Society. The most developed and the emerging economies must stabilise consumption levels, then reduce them, to help the poorest 1.3 billion people to escape absolute poverty through… Continue Reading
World Development Indicators 2012 now available
“World Development Indicators 2012 is now available in print, online, and on mobile devices. The 16th edition of World Development Indicators publication and database update contains updated data through 2010 and 2011 for many indicators. This update contains: more recent data on poverty at international poverty lines for more countries, including global and regional estimates… Continue Reading
Developing World Lags on Global Targets Related to Food and Nutrition
Global Monitoring Report 2012: Food Prices, Nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals “The developing worlds progress is seriously lagging on global targets related to food and nutrition, with rates of child and maternal mortality still unacceptably high, says the Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2012, released by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).… Continue Reading
New Publication Shines Spotlight On Global Inequality Debate
World Bank Introduction to the Inequality in Focus Series , April 2012: “The world has become considerably less poor in the past three decades. In 1981, almost three fourths of citizens in the developing world lived on less than $2 a day. This rate has dropped dramatically so now 43 percent are poor. Moreover, despite… Continue Reading
