Daily chart: which economies have fared best and worst during the global financial crisis?
Daily chart: who spends the most on the military? America’s defence spending, at nearly $700 billion a year, is bigger than that of the next 17 countries combined.
Daily chart: graduate salary expectations. Women studying in the top European institutions expect on average to earn around $12,000 less than men.
Daily chart: comparing well-being and wealth The OECD has launched the Better Life Index, which aims to compare quality of life across countries. It suggests that wealth is already a fairly good measure of happiness.
Careful About the Bump In Polls, President Obama
Foreign policy triumphs and crises rally Americans around a president, and the first polls since the raid that killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden show President Obama enjoying a surge in popularity. But history shows that such “bumps” aren’t always long lasting.
Daily chart: asylum seekers. Last year nearly 360,000 applications for asylum were lodged in 44 of the world’s richer countries. This is around half the number reported in 2001. The largest number of claims came from Serbians.
La política europea en un diagrama de Venn
Unión Europea, Consejo de Europa, Tratado Shengen, Eurozona, Asociación Europea de Libre Comercio…
Todo ello relacionado mediante un diagrama de Venn.
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Daily chart: the world’s biggest defence budgets America accounts for 60% of the world’s defence spending. But Saudi Arabia tops the charts when defence budgets are compared to GDP.
