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According to The Economist smoking is in the decline in Western Europe by 26% between 1990 to 2009 due to taxes, smoke-free policies and ed...

Slavery still exists in Mauritania today. According to the UN 10% to 20% of people still live in slavery. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y...

Barking and Dagenham, in east London. With the fastest-growing birth rate in greater London over the decade to 2010 (up 58%), it also faces...

Cuba is getting older. “The typical Cuban family consists of two grandparents, two parents and one child,” says Jorge Mario Sánchez of CEE...

The Economist published a very interesting macroeconomic figures comparing European countries regarding three main indicators; state of the...

The interesting article in The Economist discusses the position of women in the post-revolutionary era in the Arab world, in particularly i...

The Economist posted an interesting article where the author Mr. Arvind Subramanian portrays the picture of world economy in the next 20 ye...

The recent study by Kevin K. Tsui ( link ) shed some important implications of the relationship between oil wealth and democratic governance...

The wave of revolutions in the Arab world has withheld authocratic political regimes in Tunisia and Egypt after weeks of violent protests an...

The chart below shows the percentage of respondents in selected countries who willingly paid bribes to different service providers. The freq...

In their newest study , Alexander Lee and Kenneth Schultz investigated the causes of widely divergent development outcomes in Northern and S...

The persistence of low fertility rate is one of the many factors inhibiting the stability of public pension systems in developed world. From...

One of the major challenges that modern world has to face is the reduction of fertility rate. Lower fertility rate leads to demographic imba...

Does increasing economic freedom raise the unemployment rate? To answer the question, I collected data on the unemployment rate and Index of...

The Economist summarized the findings of the 2010 Corruption Perception Index. Corruption is still one of the main obstacles to prosperity ...

A very interesting estimate by the OECD shows that women with low level of education are far more likely than men to become obese. WSJ poste...

The data supplied by the OECD indicate that going to college significantly increases the likelihood of employment. The graph shows the dist...

Fidel Castro, Cuba's long-standing dictator, recently confessed ( link ) to the American journalist that Cuba's communist political ...

According to WSJ ( link ), Spain has finally implemented the broader reform of the labor market structure. Spain's 20 percent unemployme...

According to WSJ ( link ), the majority of surveyed economists in the U.S. suggests that Obama administration should extend personal income ...

Does natural resource abundance lead to more wealth and higher growth? This is an ample question of economic growth theory. In addition, man...

The share of corporate income tax in tax revenue has been growing in the last two decades in the majority of countries. Beginning in 1990s, ...

The Economist wrote an interesting article on the significance of migration and important spillovers from immigration into developed countr...

Could the 2010 World Cup bring an end to decade-long economic stagnation and poverty persistence on the African continent? Political and soc...

In recent days, Greek public sector workers have launched protests against government austersity measures which include a cutback in minimum...

In the U.S., average Body Mass Index (BMI) for men is 26, one point above the critical level. Given widespread growth of childhood obesity, ...

The US has the highest percentage of health expenditure in OECD countries. The finding is surprising given the fact that the role of governm...

Evidence suggests that living in one-parent household increases the probability of child poverty. In the OECD, 85 percent of single-parent h...

I collected data from the OECD on GDP per hour worked in each country as a percentage of the US level. The highest level of GDP per hour was...

The graph shows 10 largest borrowing arrangements by International Monetary Fund (IMF). Recent $140 billion rescue package for Greece is one...

The figure from The Economist showes that the number of official cars on the streets in Italy is 6 times as much as in the average European...

Bank of England published a very interesting survey of household financial conditions in the UK. The following graph shows quarterly percent...

Youth unemployment is one of the major macroeconomic problems in the OECD countries. High youth unemployment rates are a significant concern...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the main cause of deaths in the Europe, approximately 49 percent of all deaths, out of which 30 percent o...

The lawmakers in Florida have considered cutting the 6 percent boat registration tax. Florida already has one of the highest sales taxes in ...

Some of the issues that careful investor would consider when chosing the best country for doing business are the flexibility of the labor ma...

Today, I would like to present the impact of GDP per capita on economic freedom across the world in 2010. Economic freedom is a measure of c...

I collected data on GDP per capita and Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 50 countries in the year 2009, disregarding the level of GDP ...

The Economist wrote an interesting article about corruption where it discussed the problematics of corrupion and why does it exist. The ans...

The Economist published an article discussing the new Arizona's immigration law. Russell Pearce, an Arizona's state senator, propos...

I composed a graph from Eurostat's database on tax wedge in EU, US, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland in 2008. Tax wedge is a measure of ...

Soccer Power Index is a statistical measure of team power in world soccer. It is an interesting tool to predict soccer match results. Count...

Nate Silver published the statistical simulation of the 2010 World Cup. For each country, he calculated the probabilities of wining and adv...

The biggest foreign direct investor in China's manufacturing industy in 2005 was Hong Kong where a lot of multinational firms are locate...

Here is a graph showing the distribution of US, European and Japanese auto producers across location in Chinese manufacturing centres. As ca...

In 2001 China became the 143rd member of World Trade Organization (WTO). Since then, the country boosted trade liberalization in all sectors...

The Economist collected quarterly data on housing prices between 2003 and 2009. It is interesting to see how housing markets in different co...