LIRNEasia » poverty http://lirneasia.net a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:38:15 +0000 en hourly 1 Mobile-only households increasing in the US: New study gives data and reasons http://lirneasia.net/2011/04/mobile-only-households-increasing-in-the-us-new-study-gives-data-and-reasons/ http://lirneasia.net/2011/04/mobile-only-households-increasing-in-the-us-new-study-gives-data-and-reasons/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:35:38 +0000 Rohan Samarajiva http://lirneasia.net/?p=10824 Cambodia was the first country to have more mobiles than fixed. Finland was where the trend to mobile-only households started. And now the US is on the path. Age, poverty, subsidies seems to be contributing to the shift. And of course the prices coming down.

It’s not quite the stuff of bragging rights, but Arkansas and Mississippi find themselves at the top of a new state ranking: They have the highest concentrations of people in the nation who have abandoned landlines in favor of cellular phones.

At the other extreme? People in Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey are still holding on to their landlines, and they have the lowest concentrations of people whose homes use only cellphones.

The study, released Wednesday, was part of an annual survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.

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]]> http://lirneasia.net/2011/04/mobile-only-households-increasing-in-the-us-new-study-gives-data-and-reasons/feed/ 0 Identifying the bottom of the pyramid http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/identifying-the-bottom-of-the-pyramid/ http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/identifying-the-bottom-of-the-pyramid/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:36:19 +0000 Rohan Samarajiva http://lirneasia.net/?p=2114 As researchers with a focus on government and private-sector actions that benefit the bottom of the pyramid, LIRNEasia has an interest in understanding poverty and who is poor.   This summary report by the Economist gives a good overview of World Bank and ADB research on the subject.  Of course, those interested are recommended to go to the sources for the real thing.

BTW, for those who wonder why we keep saying that South Asia is the home to the world’s largest concentration of poor people, the answer is that the World Bank states that 595.5 million people live on below USD 1.25 (purchasing parity) in South Asia.  Sub-Saharan Africa only has 384.2 million.

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