Ted Talks Summary No. 4

Hans Rosling
          New Insights on poverty


There are a few things that Hans starts to talk about, He begins to talk about how, the success rate of people living past the age of 2 on the rise, and on the run, being the average amount of money per household per year, and how the money and people are increasing, but then he points out Africa and how even though they are in a struggle.

I have never known much about why developing countries are so behind in the economic race, so I figured i might get a little educated on the subject, I like graphs, i'm a visual learner, and this really helped to shine some light on the subject.

I always used to think of africa as the unsuccessful younger brother of the rest of the world, but now I see them as the dedicated one-legged man running the marathon trying to keep up, he shows how africa is compared to parts of the world at certain times, like in an earlier time africa was compared to medieval europe, and that they are evolving, although the process might be slow they are getting by an pulling themselves out of poverty.

I loved the quote he said when, " I have a neighbour who knows 200 different types of wine. I only know 2 different types of wine, red, and white. And he said I only know 2 different types of countries, industrial, and developing, and I know 200 "