Bill Gates & Hans Rosling launch Global Poverty Ambassadors

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On January 25th, the Global Poverty Project hosted Hans Rosling and Bill Gates at the London School of Economics to launch Global Poverty Ambassadors in partnership with The Co-Operative.

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[mkarnerfors]

You are on YouTube... writing a comment... probably on a Windows computer... where you are calling yoruself poor... and blaming Bill Gates for it?

What can I say in response to that other than that: haters will hate... no matter what the facts are... nor no matter how great their own blatant hypocracy is.Bill and Hans are making a huge difference. What about you? What do you have to show for yourself?

With all due respect: kindly Foxtrot Oscar.

[sameerpatel105]

hans rosling is a hero, a true inspiration - i hope one day to meet him

as for bill gates, give that man a nobel peace prize, so much respect for a guy who didn't just say 'lets give all my money away to make the world better' but actually dedicates his life to this.

[Al Sunshine]

Bill Gates and Microsoft do actually produce a product ie a computer operating system.The people who are ruining the economy only produce profits for themselves by repackaging 'toxic' financial products and selling them for profit to others who then also sell them on for profit and it goes round and round until everyone runs out of credit.Basically it is synthetic profit and when everything goes tits up they go crying to the governments for help and we the taxpayers take the shit for the markets

[Drew Swaine]

Very frustrating to watch Hans Rosling talk about this using such compelling visualizations while the camera man doesn't show the freaking visualizations!

[Waqas Ahmed]

Don't know why your comment was marked for spam, but yeah I was pondering on this, and I noticed that across the world, wealth has dramatically increased over the last couple of centuries.

Because of globalisation, and ageing populations, I wouldn't be surprised if we had a mass migration of Africans in 70 years to more developed countries, pumping money in to our economy and theirs

[Waqas Ahmed]

If any thing, Gates and Buffet have prospered by having an idea in the "land of opportunity" ie: a rich country, and they haven't really caused the "stealing of global economic wealth" but rather the opposite. These people have employed many people who would have been in poverty, or they've helped people come out of poverty indirectly - by companies who wish to use machines

And I reckon that you're posting this from an MEDC, so stop being a bloody hypocrite. We are the 1%

[Ainsley Harriott]

What you've done is called Ad Hominem; you've completely focused on another issue altogether. What "Janicide" was pointing out was the fact that it is because of super-corporations taking advantage of next-to no income jobs in countries like Vietnam and Cambodia that these men are so incredibly rich.

[hpotta1]

next time please record the presentation and not just the speaker.