Friday's shortcuts from the oven...1. A new index has been created to rank nations of the world according to their peacefulness. It is called Global Peace Index and Sustainability. It doesn´t seem to be very correlated to GDP! We'll check it out next week. Click on the map to enlarge it! quite interesting.
2. Did you know that Florida has the same GDP as South Korea and New Jersey's economy is like Russia? Have a look at how the map of US would be if were supplanting states for countries around the world here! Via strangemaps!
3. Politics inaction! the G8 summit celebrated in Heiligendamm (Germany) ended past week... have a look at the summit declaration... very vague and according to past commitments not reached, I don't think this one will be different... why is it so difficult to commit in serious stuff concerning Africa? Getting back to the basics, that is, reading Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action may help us to understand why! (for those not interested in reading the whole book, here is a good summary of the main thesis!)
4. The young and fragile democracy of Palestine seems to be collapsing. Very bad news for Middle East stability...
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