So you want a revolution?

Who is Srdja Popovic?

Question: what do the so-called "colour" revolutions – Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004), and the rest – have in common with the uprising that drove Egypt's Hosni Mubarak from power? Answer: the great majority of the people involved avoided committing acts of violence; and the organisers took advice from a young Serbian revolutionary called Srdja Popovic and his colleagues.

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World Bank classification of countries into income groups

Click here to see how the world bank classificies countries according to income. Although there are similar maps in text books it is always useful to see an updated version.

"This map classifies all World Bank member economies and all other economies with populations of more than 30,000 for operational and analytical purposes. Economies are divided among income groups according to 2010 gross national income (GNI) per capita, calculated using the World Bank Atlas method."