The end of extreme poverty | Alex Thier | TEDxFoggyBottom

[@markwgillespie]

Bravo! So inspiring! Truly appreciate all your hard efforts Mr. Thier.

[@julias.8582]

Very inspiring! Thanks a lot for what you are doing!

[@ronniewang2443]

Great talk showing ways to help those live in poverty to improve their life quality. they have done amazing job.

[@SanjeewaMarasinghe]

My respect to your work. Totally inspiring

[@jyde50]

the graph he showed around 4:50 is wrong , he refused to show the economic growth Congo has since 2000.

[@pickledcucumber5547]

thanks professor dayıoglu ocal

[@sinemdemirtas8147]

thanks again

[@yesilcay863]

thanks again

[@sudem5417]

thanks again

[@ahmetsefakucuk5722]

thanks again

[@vishayawilliams4378]

Well said.

[@jackjackson3356]

There are no silver bullets...It is a combination of pragmatic measures that lead to tangible improvements ! Alex Thier talk is "sugar coated" it disregards plenty of underlying issues...Things never were that simple !

[@mithleshsinghworld]

Great

[@phyliciajoykloes]

Yay to extreme possibilities!

[@phy29]

I am here now ....

[@egorka2201]

It's obscene to refere to south-korea as "one example of successful development", suggesting "likeness" between it and the kongo, all the while omitting the funds, paid by the united states of america in a marshall-plan-like programm to create a posterchild of capitalist development, bordering a communist country. This guy is totally wrong, he assumes that development is something intrinsic and can be promoted by the right kind of policy. If a country is just liberal enough and friendly enough to big business, then development will follow. The reality is much more complicated. Also powerty can be "reduced" or "increased" just by changing the definition of what it means to be poor.

[@bicyclist2]

Amen!

[@mayainverse9429]

1% of the population has created 99% of the worlds wealth. its the 1% that made it possible for a guy like me who works 30 hours a week on a low wage job to have a roof over my head and only taking 2-3 days to pay for an entire months worth of food. and access to technology and heating.

[@bicyclist2]

Someones completely brainwashed about the 1%.

[@Eldorado1239]

Some parts I liked, some parts seemed too optimistic, but one part really dumbfounded me, if I understood it correctly. Did I get this right, that instead of teaching people that the "good luck dung" is killing their babies, they give them a "cure" that makes them feel even happier about using their - excuse me, but there is no other way to call it - uncivilised and ultimately stupid ritual? What about FGM, that must contribute a lot to child mortality as well, not even mentioning the way it ruins huge number of lives forever. Should we just give them better scalpels and antiseptic creams...? I am not pretending to be the smartest person in the world, but from everything I have ever seen or heard about this problem - I think there actually is a silver bullet. It's called education. Education - which must also cover eradication of all superstition, like in the two cases above - is the key; or rather the lack of it is the main source of misery. Of course, there are others - but those are usually local. Lack of education seems to me as the common problem of all poor areas in the world. And it's a closed circle - education will bring you many new opportunities, but you need money to get it. Being poor prevents you from getting education, thus closing a very solid road out of poverty. That's where we should invest most of our resources spared to help poor countries - at least in my opinion. Huge companies sure could supply people with jobs - but they are in the best position to abuse those people as cheap labor while looking like saviours. It has happened, it happens and it will happen. They need the kind of support that will make them stand on their own feet, no matter what western corporations will plan to do with them. Which is, again, education. Or is there a place where education level grew while life quality declined? Like I said, don't take this as an arrogant comment please. Feel free to tell me where my logic goes completely wrong.

[@coolman5242]

+ElDoRado1239 I was thinking so as well first. Since instead of wasting economic resources on distributing creams, they could simply tell them, "Hey, you're silly superstition is wiping out your community." And the fact that he just scapegoated that thought, it really cancels out the point he was trying to make in the debate. Yet, on the other hand, you have to think of it this way. Their collective community is so small that their culture is one of the few things to keep them happily unified. A group teaching a community a skill(farming, trade, etc.) is not hard, but teaching someone to relinquish their believes in order to improve as a community is extremely hard if they're satisfied with it. As you said, education can pretty much save their community, but to supply education to a poverty community unwilling to chain someone within it would have to make means of educating their self to a substantial level(most likely by acquire education from a more modernized town) and tried to build some type of trade to improve the economic infrastructure. But like I said before, it's basically as you stated. What the communities basically new is education. A common example is how schools built in Africa from foreign donations(like as he explained in the video) has significantly proven to be effective. Since, graduates tend to travel overseas to learn new trades and the ones whom decide to return try to improve the economic standard of the poor society. Usually hand-holding is a bad practice, but with a society that's literally several eras behind, sometimes it's required.

[@navabnazari8775]

*****

[@rooob91]

+coolman5242 So true. They would probably never seen the same result simply by telling them: "Ey mom, YOU are killing your baby with cow-poo, how stupid are you?!" Even though that is the case. I think they flipped the problem around and made the best of it.

[@mayainverse9429]

fails to address the issue of how the rich countries dug themselves out of 100,000 years of human poverty. as if their wealth and technology and economy has always existed. and that somehow it is the duty of the rich countries to help the poor countrys get out of it instead of being simply leading by example and allowing them to follow.

[@bicyclist2]

Some of what he said is right and some of what he said is wrong. Countries don't always get themselves out of poverty by planning and investment. Capitalist investment is what makes the difference. Thanks.

[@hregaya]

If only...

[@sampleowner6677]

Most poverty is the result of cultures that are backward or have belief systems that impede prosperity.

[@AstronautHenryMacHenry]

MISS U ALL THERE IN NASA GOV.T AND ALL THE KNEELS AND LOVES, TOO! -ASTRONAUT HENRY MAC HENRY: FIRST MAN TO BE IN THE KEPLER WORLDS(PARTNER: ASTRONAUT ABIGAIL HARRISON: FIRST WOMAN TO BE IN MARS(STAR: SUN).)

[@nevercanyoucant]

GARBAGE

[@sidstocking4618]

A sales pitch.

[@senantiasa]

Yep, sounds like it... He doesn't really seem concerned about the poor.