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	<description>For a fact based world view.</description>
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		<title>High income - rare in tropical land-locked countries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The role of geography for the prospects of development has been hotly debated the last decade. Economists, like Jeffrey Sachs, have suggested that a country that are situated in the tropics or that are landlocked face a much larger challenge in development, for a number of reasons.

In Gapminder World, you can now explore two of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/high-income-rare-in-tropical-land-locked-countries/</link>
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		<title>Crisis narrows China-UK gap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>200 years ago, United Kingdom was a leading nation of the world. </strong>

See UK's  journey to present time - and how China is closing in.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/crisis-narrows-china-uk-gap/</link>
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		<title>HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>25 years of the HIV epidemic in easily understood graphics.</strong>

Showing the big differences within Africa.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/ted-talk-2009-hans-rosling-hiv-facts/</link>
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		<title>Swine flu alert! News/Death ratio: 8176</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>News/Death ratio for Swine flu and TB.</strong>
Shows media hype and neglect, respectively!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/swine-flu-alert-news-death-ratio-tuberculosis/</link>
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		<title>Human rights &amp; democracy statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Human Rights &#38; Democracy statistics</strong>

correlates poorly with progress in Health and Wealth.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/human-rights-democracy-statistics/</link>
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		<title>200 years that changed the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>200 years of history in 4.5 minutes.</strong>

Let Hans Rosling guide you through the developments of the last two centuries.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/200-years-that-changed-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Lung Cancer Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Iceland "leading" march towards</strong>
gender equity in lung cancer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/lung-cancer-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Prostate Cancer Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Prostate cancer most common in the US</strong>.
Overdiagnosis or not?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/prostate-cancer-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Breast Cancer Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Breast Cancer increases with income</strong>

But so does the chances of saving women with cancer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/breast-cancer-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Liver Cancer Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Vaccination, but not high-income,</strong>

can prevent liver cancer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/liver-cancer-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Colon Cancer Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>High-income 'cause'
</strong>

and may cure colon cancer!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/colon-cancer-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Stomach Cancer Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Stomach cancer highest
in middle income countries.</strong>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/stomach-cancer-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Cervical Cancer Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Cervical Cancer can be prevented and treated.</strong>

Today it is most common among women in low-income countries.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/cervical-cancer-statistics/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Income per person&#8221; revised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have made a number of revisions of &#8220;Income per person&#8221;.The biggest difference is that some observations with unrealistically low values have been adjusted upwards. We have also replaced several observations with data from more recent studies. Read more in the documentation.
No tags for this post.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/income-per-person-revised/</link>
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		<title>New Google feature: &#8220;public data search&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has just launched a new search feature that makes it possible to search and compare public data in an interactive graph. In this first version, data for unemployment, for all US states and districts, are available and the results are very interesting:
Click this link to see and investigate US unemployment rate
Also read Google&#8217;s official [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/more-news/new-google-feature-public-data-search/</link>
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		<title>Hans Rosling documentary on Swedish Television</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Roslings värld&#8221;, a new television documentary about Hans Rosling produced by the Swedish Television (SVT), will soon air in Sweden. In this portait by the Swedish journalist Pär Fjällström the viewers get to follow Hans Rosling during a few weeks in the end of 2008.

The documentary is programmed to air on SVT2 on three occasions:

Sunday, May 3, 2009  at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/rosling-on-svt/</link>
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		<title>Two new videos with Hans Rosling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[200 years that changed the world
- 200 years of history in 4.5 minutes.
Viewer responses to the video:
&#8220;Thanks for posting another thoroughly thought provoking video.&#8221;
&#8220;This is brilliant, compelling and amazingly well visualized.&#8221;
Shanghai, New York, Mumbai
- Is Shanghai healthier than New York? And how do Washington D.C. and Mumbai rank?
Be the first to comment this video!

	Tags: Hans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/more-news/two-new-videos-with-hans-rosling/</link>
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		<title>Shanghai, New York, Mumbai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Is Shanghai healthier than New York?</strong>

And how do Washington D.C. and Mumbai rank?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/videos/shanghai-new-york-mumbai/</link>
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		<title>Income per person in Gapminder World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The name of the main income indicator shown when Gapminder World is started has been revised for clarity, but the data remain the same. It is now called &#8220;Income per person (GDP/capita, inflation-adjusted $).

This is our attempt to clarify that this indicator in fact adjusts for inflation. It also adjusts for differences in purchasing power [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/income-per-person-in-gapminder-world/</link>
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		<title>Learn to use Gapminder in the classroom (in Swedish)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you a teacher? Do you live in Sweden? We now offer a course on how to use Gapminder materials in the classroom. The course will be in Swedish, takes place in Stockholm on 15-16 of June and the prize is 2800 SEK + sales tax. If more than one teacher come from the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/learn-to-use-gapminder-in-the-classroom-in-swedish/</link>
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		<title>Gapminder starts Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to Gapminders newsletter.

From March 2009 we will be sending out a newsletter via email, with the most important news from Gapminder. The mail will be sent out when we have something we think is of interest.

	Tags: Gapminder, Newsletter, sign on, subscribe
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/gapminder-starts-news-letter/</link>
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		<title>HIV-documentation updated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have made some minor corrections to the documentation of our HIV-data.

The changes are only minor (e.g. language corrections and a few typos), so the name remains &#8220;Gapminder Documentation 006 - version 1&#8243;.
No tags for this post.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/new-data-documentation/hiv-documentation-updated/</link>
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		<title>Hans Rosling debunks myths in new lecture-series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can the population growth be stopped? Is Brazil, Egypt and Bangladesh now improving faster than Sweden ever did? And can everyone live on the same level as the rich countries?
In a new lecture series, filmed in a studio at the Swedish Television, Hans Rosling answer yes to all questions above.
The lecture has been divided into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/uncategorized/hans-rosling-debunks-myth-in-new-lecture-series/</link>
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		<title>Gapminder.org - one of the 10 best sites in 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gapminder.org is one of the best ten webpages in 2009 for planning, design and development, according to the Planetizens yearly top ten list.

Planetizen is a Los Angeles based public-interest information exchange for the urban planning, design, and development community.
Read more on: www.planetizen.com.

	Tags: awards, design, Gapminder, Planetizen, top ten list, www.gapminder.org
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/planetizen-top-10-list/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Yes they can!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Swedish students say: “They can never live like us” Time to rethink!
Watch this new video with Hans Rosling.
No tags for this post.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gapminder.org/world-blog/yes-they-can-2/</link>
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