extreme poverty

concept · in 17 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 2 · 2008: 1 · 2009: 2 · 2010: 2 · 2011: 4 · 2012: 3 · 2013: 3

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2007-06-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 14: Good News/Bad News — John thinks they learned a lot about microfinance, poverty and real life in the Dominican Republic, and look forward to making those videos back home. (00:01:48)
2007-06-28 · June 28: How to Be a Microfinancier — John says about 60% of people in the Dominican Republic live in extreme poverty and about half of those live on less than one dollar a day. (00:00:00)
2007-06-28 · June 28: How to Be a Microfinancier — John explains a cycle of poverty: without collateral the very poor get no bank loans, so cannot start businesses, so there are no jobs and the economy stays weak. (00:00:45)

2008-03-05 · SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD — Answering several questions at once, John says yes to a trip to Nepal and to using his radio pieces as monologues, and names poverty as the world problem he would make go away. (00:03:20)

2009-10-12 · Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism — John says the entrepreneurs he lends to in the developing world live on less than a dollar a day. (00:02:38)
2009-10-12 · Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism — John says money can't buy love but can buy longer, healthier, more secure lives, and it is amazing to watch tiny loans bring people out of poverty at no cost to him. (00:03:00)
2009-12-02 · Shaving for Pakistan — John says Pakistan's economy has grown in recent years but per-capita GDP by purchasing power is under $1,000 a year: on average people live on less than $3 a day. (00:01:03)

2010-01-15 · Introduction to Chemistry with Hank — Hank says Nerdfighter Shawn Ahmed, doing amazing work in Bangladesh, is one of five finalists to possibly attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, and asks everyone to vote for him via the sidebar. (00:02:55)
2010-09-18 · Positive Prank Calls!! — Hank says global poverty rates have dropped 30 percent since 1990 and are on track to drop another 10 percent before 2015. (00:01:48)

2011-08-30 · A Letter to the Aliens — Hank says that without money it is hard to get food and shelter; people still regularly die from lack of money; most find this troubling, but attempts at better solutions have not fully succeeded. (00:02:59)
2011-09-27 · Awesome Bankers? — John worries most for the hundreds of millions of people who emerged from poverty in the last 40 years, since developing-world entrepreneurs depend much more on low-interest loans (taxi parts, farm animals, cosmetics, restaurant food). (00:01:56)
2011-10-27 · 7,000,000,000 People — Good news, per Hank: birth rates are down to 2.5 babies per woman, near replacement; contraception use is up dramatically; disease and poverty rates are lower; education is higher. (00:02:11)

2012-08-21 · Is College Worth It? — With about half of humans living on less than $2.50 a day, John calls the chance to study formally a gift, even if a very expensive one. (00:03:38)
2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John says the Foundation to Decrease World Suck was set up in 2007 to fund things like Nerdfighters' first concerts and fighting global poverty, and since 2008 has focused on global poverty as more important. (00:00:29)
2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — John says about 1.4 billion people live in absolute poverty, surviving on less than $1.25 a day with inadequate resources for food, water and other basics (last word unclear). (00:00:23)
2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — John says poverty is an incredibly complex problem: corrupt governments, malaria and HIV/AIDS, climate change and energy policy hurting food production, malnutrition, poor infrastructure and education, and discrimination all contribute. (00:00:52)
2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — John says children first have to survive to five, and that cutting childhood illness and death rates also cuts poverty rates. (00:02:20)

2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank: if all goes well, in a child of the brothers's lifetime humans will walk on Mars, computers become intelligent, the paralyzed walk again, absolute poverty all but end, and she may live past 100; or technological society may implode. It could go either way. (00:00:12)
2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — John asks viewers to vote at projectforawesome.com for Save the Children and other organizations fighting poverty and disease in the developing world. (00:03:28)
2013-12-31 · GOOD NEWS: 14 Reasons 2014 May Be the Best Year Ever — John says absolute poverty is down worldwide; the UN estimates poverty fell more in the last 50 years than in the previous 500. (00:01:07)
2013-12-31 · GOOD NEWS: 14 Reasons 2014 May Be the Best Year Ever — John says the share of people living on under $1.25 a day, adjusted for inflation, fell from 43% in 1990 to 20% today, mostly through gains in China, India and Brazil. (00:01:21)
2013-12-31 · GOOD NEWS: 14 Reasons 2014 May Be the Best Year Ever — John says wealth inequality remains a huge problem worldwide, but in the vast majority of countries the poor are becoming less poor. (00:01:36)