The end of extreme poverty | Alex Thier | TEDxFoggyBottom

By Martin D. Cole in Poverty Removal 1376 views 15th January 2017 Video Duration: 00:15:52
For millennia, most human lives have been spent enduring extreme poverty, without enough food, medicine, education, freedom to live a decent life. If you wer...

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  • “Ending extreme poverty will be perhaps the greatest accomplishment of our human civilization,” Strong governments are the cornerstone of healthy and “Ending extreme poverty will be perhaps the greatest accomplishment of our human civilization,” Strong governments are the cornerstone of healthy and resilient societies and one of the key factors to ending extreme poverty.  More ...
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