The european Supergrid project

Submitted by bhamon on Thu, 07/26/2012 - 11:45
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Brieuc Hamon

This document is a presentation about the European Supergrid project, which consist in connecting all the Offshore wind farms together to provide electricity to all Europe.

Organizations Working to Create a Global Partnership for Development

Submitted by shirab12 on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 11:26
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Poverty Environment Partnership

This picture gives the reader basic information about two organizations working to bring together members of the private, public, and volunteer sectors (as well as various existing organizatons) in order to create international development strategies and to solve problems.

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Organizations Working to Prevent or Treat Global Infectious Diseases

Submitted by shirab12 on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 11:18
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International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Doctors Without Borders

This picture gives the reader some basic information about two organizations working to prevent and treat global infectious diseases in the developing world.

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Relationship Between GDP Per Capita and the Global Gender Gap Index of 2009

Submitted by shirab12 on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 11:14
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World Economic Forum

This graph shows the relationship between per capita GDP of individual countries (or the average amount earned per person per year) and the Global Gender Gap Index Score (or the amount of money a woman makes for every dollar earned by a man with the same job). There is a clear, positive correlation between per capita GDP and the Gender Gap Index Score.

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Global Education Levels

Submitted by shirab12 on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 11:09
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UNESCO Institute of Statistics

This combined image shows the number of years children and young adults attend school. Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, and North Africa are the three most education-deficient regions as shown on the map. The bottom graph depicts the distribution of years spent in school, showing the number of years spent in pre-school, grammar/secondary school, and post-secondary school by region. 

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World Literacy Rates (1985-2005)

Submitted by shirab12 on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 10:49

This chart shows both global and regional literacy rates over a period of twenty years (1985-2005). While overall global levels have risen dramatically, education for women and in the least developed countries continues to lag.

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Global Undernourishment (2006)

Submitted by shirab12 on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 10:44

This map shows the percentage of the population that is undernourished (the World Health Organization's standard of measuring hunger) by country. Sub-Saharan Africa, all of Asia, and Latin America are hunger hotspots, with a minimum of 5% of the population undernourished.

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