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Green Revolution
From 1950 to 1984, Green Revolution transformed agriculture around the world, grain production increased by over 250%.
The world population has grown by about 4 billion since the beginning of the Green Revolution and most believe that, without the Revolution, there would be greater famine and malnutrition than the UN presently documents (approximately 850 million people suffering from chronic malnutrition in 2005) -
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International trade....
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Income inequality in the US
Income inequality in the United States started to rise -
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Newspaper articles
A study of newspaper articles has shown that the percentage of articles exhibiting neutral framing decreased from nearly 90% to around 25% -
Peer Fiss and Paul Hirsch
The study by Peer Fiss and Paul Hirsch suggests that the politicization of this discourse has emerged largely in response to greater US involvement with the international economy. For example, their survey shows that more than 40% of respondents were unfamiliar with the concept of globalization. -
Repeated survey
When the survey was repeated, 89% of the respondents had a polarized view of globalization as being either good or bad. At the same time, discourse on globalization, which was at first confined largely to the financial community, started to focus instead on an increasingly heated debate between proponents of globalization and a dipartite group of disenchanted students and workers. -
Tuberculosis
The tuberculosis (TB) rate among foreign-born persons in the United States was 9.5 times that of U.S.-born persons -
The journal Science
The journal Science published a four-year study, which predicted that, at prevailing trends, the world would run out of wild-caught seafood in 2048 -
CO2
China overtook the United States as the world's biggest producer of CO2 -
A report
A report predicted that by 2050 the economies of the E7 emerging economies (the BRIC countries: China, India, Brazil, and Russia, plus Indonesia and Turkey) will be around 50% larger than the current G7 (US, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy and Canada). China is expected to overtake the US as the largest economy around 2025, while India will overtake the US in 2050 -
Branko Milanovic
World Bank economist Branko Milanovic has called much previous empirical research on global poverty and inequality into question because, according to him, improved estimates of purchasing power parity indicate that developing countries are worse off than previously believed. Milanovic remarks that "literally hundreds of scholarly papers on convergence or divergence of countries’ incomes have been published in the last decade based on what we know now were faulty numbers." With the new data, pos -
Tourists
there were over 922 million international tourist arrivals, with a growth of 1.9% as compared to 2007
