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July 2018
Dollar Street is a powerful and fascinating site, showing how people really live around the world. Dollar Street is a project from Gapminder, the foundation set up by the late, great Hans Rosling, who died a year ago from pancreatic cancer, aged only 68. He is missed.
World's wealthiest 1% control 43% of global assets:top 10% own 83%.Bottom 50% own only 2%.Unsustainable contrasts->revolutions - Patrick Dixon (on Twitter)
Does Bitcoin herald a revolution in how we will create, exchange and spend money? Launched in 2009 by an anonymous developer, Bitcoin saw a c.1300% spike in value since the beginning of 2013, before recent steep falls suggested it might be a bubble. The Atlantic noted that starting your own currency is "not as complicated as it sounds.
Philosopher and writer Alan Watts (1915-1973), trying to encourage us all to find our purpose and do what we love, asked the seemingly simple question of what we would do if money were no object.
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If the world were a village of 100 people, what would it look like? Various answers have circulated around the web for a decade or more already, but a new set of 20 posters now provides a visual perspective on this fascinating hypothetical question.
An essay by a leading social investor laid out the rationale for impact investing, whereby investors can simultaneously create social impact and achieve financial returns.
Some argue that long-term evidence now suggests that microfinance hasn't provided people in developing countries with a way out of poverty.
The World Bank expects the US dollar to lose its solitary dominance in the global economy by 2025, as the euro and the renminbi establish themselves on an equal footing in a new ‘multi-currency’ monetary system.