The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty has been running every year since 1993, when the United Nations General Assembly assigned this day to promote awareness of the need to eliminate poverty in all countries.
Here on OpenLearn, we have collated a range of videos, content and free courses to help aid your understanding of poverty. Take a look at the FREE resources below.
Learn more about poverty and international development
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Understanding international development
Please note: This course contains several Flash activities which are no longer playable. These are being updated. This course can still be studied, but you may like to postpone your study for now if you would rather have the full experience.
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Social science and participation
This free course, Social science and participation, looks at how social science investigates participation, and uses this topic to look in particular at how social science helps to enact social worlds. As you work through the course, you will see that social science enactment of participation is closely related to social science descriptions of,...
Watch these videos with Hans Rosling on poverty statistics
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Hans Rosling: How to compare countries using statistics
Statistician magician, the late Hans Rosling shows you how to collate and animate the data of different countries in these short videos that depict our changing world.
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An introduction to visualising development data
Tony Hirst and Hans Rosling introduce us to visualising development data and explore bar charts, line charts and scatter graphs.
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How to compare income across countries
When we want to compare figures from two different countries, what makes for a fair basis of comparison? Tony Hirst and Hans Rosling explain.
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