Is Poverty Necessary? Looking back at the Millennium Development Goals
Channel: vlogbrothers
Date: 2015-09-22

In which John examines the progress of the UN's Millennium Development Goals over the last 15 years and looks ahead to the Global Goals. Can we live in a world where extreme poverty and undernourishment are rare? Are we closer to gender equality? How have infant mortality rates and maternal mortality rates changed in the last 25 years? And how will we ensure that the astonishing progress since 1990 continues?

Learn more about the Global Goals: http://www.globalgoals.org/
Thanks to Gates Notes for letting me borrow bits of their excellent videos on the MDGs: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/UNGA-2015-Setting-Global-Goals
Undernourishment graphs from Max Rosen, 'Hunger and Undernourishment' - Our World in Data: http://www.ourworldindata.org/data/food-agriculture/hunger-and-undernourishment

And thanks to Rosianna for designing the charts and graphics in this video: http://www.youtube.com/rosianna


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