James Fletcher
speaker
208 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2014
last heard Sep 2014
James Fletcher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
To be able to compare the incomes and prices between countries, you have to create a new currency.
This is what the International Comparison Programme does.
It creates an artificial dollar.
And this has got development policy wonks hopping around because reducing the number of extremely poor people is one of the Millennium Development Goals agreed by the United Nations.
This suggests we've made a lot more progress on that goal than we previously thought.
Kaushik Basu of the World Bank is cautious about that one too.
Again, he says, we still don't know how prices are changing for the poorest people.
But the World Bank isn't hurrying to produce new poverty estimates.
It says it has an ongoing project to consider the new figures and won't rush a new estimate of extreme poverty.
Kaushik Basu, chief economist of the World Bank.
Tim, as we were researching this item, we kept encountering reports that because of these price revisions, China's economy was about to surpass the economy of the United States.
And that's one I've checked.
At the moment, the United States is still well ahead of China on that basis.
Its economy is almost twice as big.
Well, Tim, 37 in one year is way off the mark.
matched
In the 12 months after Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier, only one other athlete managed it, and it was his great Australian rival John Landy.
matched
Just six weeks after Bannister set his record, Landy lowered it by almost two seconds.
matched
The two of them then met on the track at the Empire Games in Vancouver, and you can imagine, the only two men ever to break four minutes facing each other, this generated huge interest.
matched
And in a thrilling race, Bannister overtook Landy on the final bend to win.
matched
That race has become known as the Miracle Mile, and both men finished under four minutes.
matched
Showing 181–200 of 208 · page 10 of 11
← Previous
Next →