World poverty: Is technology the great leveller?

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Since 1990, the global rates of extreme poverty have gone from around 40% to around 10%. However, progress is slowing, and 710 million people around the world still live in extreme poverty - currently earning below $1.90 per day. So how can technology help? In this episode, we’ll be meeting some of the people and organisations aiming to eradicate poverty through the use of technology.

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0:00.0	Simply in terms of figures, a 10% increase in mobile broadband in a given country
0:11.4	increases the GDP by 1.5%. So that's huge. So the power of technology, the power of
0:18.9	communications, you know, of digital services is really
0:22.1	a huge potential.
0:24.2	Ending world poverty.
0:25.5	It's a monumental challenge.
0:28.2	Over the decades, it's been a slow and steady grind to bring the standard of living
0:32.4	up to bearable levels for hundreds of millions of people around the world.
0:40.3	We've made huge progress. Since 1990, the global rates of extreme poverty have gone from around 40% to around 10%.
0:47.3	Fantastic.
0:49.3	The rapid economic development of countries like India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and many others is playing a big part
0:56.3	in bringing that number down, as is a concerted effort by the international community to invest in
1:02.5	a developing world and economically isolated communities. However, 710 million people around the world
1:09.6	are still in extreme poverty, currently earning
1:12.9	below $1.90 per day. And that is pretty appalling. One of the UN's sustainable development goals
1:21.5	is to end world poverty by 2030, but many estimates put us way off track for achieving that. Not ideal.
1:30.3	You don't need me to tell you that in the last few years the world has changed markedly.
1:35.3	Technologies to connect us all have become not only more affordable but more commonplace, even in formally remote communities.
1:43.3	Telecoms and IT infrastructure are reaching out
1:46.3	to previously untouched parts of the world. So, how can we leverage that? What can technology do
1:53.6	to help end world poverty? That's what we're going to be looking at in this episode,
1:58.4	following on from our previous look at how technology can help
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