Global Poverty Myths

Hans Rosling, a professor from Sweden, gave a most amazing Ted Talk, "New Insights on Poverty," in which he talked about how to get at the real nature of poverty in this world and how it is so much more complex than most people imagine.  He observed:

"We have to know a little more about the world. I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine.  He knows everything.  He knows the name of the grape, the temperature, and everything.  I only know two types of wine — red and white.  But my neighbor only knows two types of countries — industrialized and developing.  And I know 200, I know about the small data...  I'm telling you that there are many dimensions of development.  Everyone wants your pet thing.  If you are in the corporate sector, you love micro-credit.  If you are fighting in a non-governmental organization, you love equity between genders.  Or if you are a teacher, you'll love UNESCO, and so on.  On the global level, we have to have more than our own thing.  We need everything.  All these things are important for development, especially when you just get out of poverty and you should go towards welfare."

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