Tracking four alternative economic indicators would provide a very different view of comparative performance than GDP.
Despite the well-known problems with using gross domestic product as an indicator of human development, policy-makers around the world still seem obsessed with it. Governments seek to promote GDP growth through all possible means, often regardless of the wider consequences for the planet and the distribution of rewards. The current focus on quarterly growth reflects a particularly unhealthy short-term perspective. And yet the International Monetary Fund and other multilateral organisations refer to GDP in all assessments of economic performance and make it the sole focus of their forecasts.
Read more at
Let’s count what really matters – Jayati Ghosh
Showing posts with label Tracking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tracking. Show all posts
4/11/20
Privacy issues: Apple, Google team up to make software to slow down spread of coronavirus
Software developed by two of the world's biggest tech giants will allow users to log other phones they have been physically close to.
Read more at:
https://www.dw.com/en/apple-google-team-up-to-make-software-to-slow-down-spread-of-coronavirus/a-53092203
Read more at:
https://www.dw.com/en/apple-google-team-up-to-make-software-to-slow-down-spread-of-coronavirus/a-53092203
3/12/20
China - Human Rights: China′s systematic tracking, arrests of Uighurs exposed in new Xinjiang leak
In May 2017, a Uighur man was taken away to
a "re-education camp" in China's northwestern Xinjiang region.
As an observant Muslim, the man prayed at home after meals, and sometimes attended Friday prayers at his local mosque. The reasons for his forced internment: His wife had covered her face with a veil and the couple had "too many" children. There was never a trial.
According to a newly leaked document from Xinjiang, the man underwent a "great ideological transformation" in the camp and "realized his mistakes and showed good repentance." The family's four boys and two girls back at home all demonstrated "good behavior."
In June 2017, however, their mother was sent to prison for six years. She was charged with participating in an "illegal religious activity."
This family's story is similar to hundreds of cases, which are listed in unprecedented detail.
The leak provides information on why people are detained, while revealing that Chinese authorities are using high-tech surveillance and sheer manpower to keep track of identities, locations and habits of individual Uighur Muslims.
The list of detainees records the fate of 311 people who were sent off to "re-education" for the most innocuous things: growing a beard, fasting, or applying for a passport.
All of them had contacts abroad, and all were put in internment camps in 2017 and 2018. The document also lists hundreds of other people connected to them, including children.
DW, together with German broadcasters NDR and WDR and the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, spent weeks translating the document and analyzing the data.
Read more at: Exclusive: China′s systematic tracking, arrests of Uighurs exposed in new Xinjiang leak | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 17.02.2020
As an observant Muslim, the man prayed at home after meals, and sometimes attended Friday prayers at his local mosque. The reasons for his forced internment: His wife had covered her face with a veil and the couple had "too many" children. There was never a trial.
According to a newly leaked document from Xinjiang, the man underwent a "great ideological transformation" in the camp and "realized his mistakes and showed good repentance." The family's four boys and two girls back at home all demonstrated "good behavior."
In June 2017, however, their mother was sent to prison for six years. She was charged with participating in an "illegal religious activity."
This family's story is similar to hundreds of cases, which are listed in unprecedented detail.
The leak provides information on why people are detained, while revealing that Chinese authorities are using high-tech surveillance and sheer manpower to keep track of identities, locations and habits of individual Uighur Muslims.
The list of detainees records the fate of 311 people who were sent off to "re-education" for the most innocuous things: growing a beard, fasting, or applying for a passport.
All of them had contacts abroad, and all were put in internment camps in 2017 and 2018. The document also lists hundreds of other people connected to them, including children.
DW, together with German broadcasters NDR and WDR and the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, spent weeks translating the document and analyzing the data.
Read more at: Exclusive: China′s systematic tracking, arrests of Uighurs exposed in new Xinjiang leak | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 17.02.2020
3/26/18
France - Extremism: the challenge of tracking 20,000 suspected extremists
France's
interior ministry compiles something known as the "S file" (the "S"
stands for security) which contains anyone suspected of being a radical,
including potentially dangerous leftist and far-right activists.
There is also a separate list, the File for the Prevention of Terrorist Radicalisation (FSPRT), for people judged to be terror threats.
Radouane Lakdim, the gunman involved in last Friday's shooting spree in the southern French towns of Carcassonne and Trebes, was listed in the S File in May 2014 and the FSPRT in September 2015.
The file includes people who represent varying degrees of threat, from someone who is reported by his boss for not shaking hands with women to a minor who has recently converted to Islam.
But there are more serious cases of people in contact with members of the Islamic State (IS) group, or others who have left for or wanted to travel to areas controlled by IS in Iraq or Syria.
Once listed, a person will remain on the list for five years but might not be actively monitored. The file also contains records of potential links between suspects.
It updates gradually, as cases are reported by the security services or via calls to the toll-free tipline that launched in April 2014.
Read more: France and the challenge of tracking 20,000 suspected extremists - France 24
There is also a separate list, the File for the Prevention of Terrorist Radicalisation (FSPRT), for people judged to be terror threats.
Radouane Lakdim, the gunman involved in last Friday's shooting spree in the southern French towns of Carcassonne and Trebes, was listed in the S File in May 2014 and the FSPRT in September 2015.
The file includes people who represent varying degrees of threat, from someone who is reported by his boss for not shaking hands with women to a minor who has recently converted to Islam.
But there are more serious cases of people in contact with members of the Islamic State (IS) group, or others who have left for or wanted to travel to areas controlled by IS in Iraq or Syria.
Once listed, a person will remain on the list for five years but might not be actively monitored. The file also contains records of potential links between suspects.
It updates gradually, as cases are reported by the security services or via calls to the toll-free tipline that launched in April 2014.
Read more: France and the challenge of tracking 20,000 suspected extremists - France 24
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)