Polarization is a property applying to transverse waves that specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations. In a transverse wave, the direction of the oscillation is transverse to the direction of motion of the wave, so the oscillations can have different directions perpendicular to the wave direction. A simple example of a polarized transverse wave is vibrations traveling along a taut string; for example, in a musical instrument like a guitar string. Depending on how the string is p
The Future of Poverty: Framing Uncertainty 75 Given both the weak basis for forecasting and slow change historically in domestic distributions, a fundamentally ï¬ at forecast is a reasonable pattern for the base case.8 Patterns of Potential Human Progress Volume 1: Reducing Global Poverty Third, however, those scenarios also remind us that the future is not simply a matter of different human action patterns.
Poverty reduction is a major goal and issue for many international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank. The World Bank estimated 1.29 billion people were living in absolute poverty in 2008. Of these, about 400 million people in absolute poverty lived in India and 173 million people in China.