Expanding Dr. Yunus’ Sphere of Influence

This WorldMapper site consists of ‘visual statistics’ that are rather eye-opening. Using many different data sources, it illustrates the influence of the West and North over the East and South in devastating and embarrassing ways.

Please click yourself. Poverty is one of the 27 top categories.

366 maps can be studied altogether.

Here’s my selection as a beginning:

Human poverty

Mercantile and Business Exports

The Wretched Dollar (up to $1 a day)

Absolute Poverty (up to $2 a day)

Human Development: health, wealth and education

Total Debt Service 1990

Total Debt Service 2002

National Income