TedTalks 2007: Hans Rosling on poverty

Hans Rosling
Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute
Co-founder, Director of Gapminder Foundation

            http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/140

A professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, his current work focuses on dispelling common myths about the so-called developing world, which (he points out) is no longer worlds away from the west. In fact, most of the third world is on the same trajectory toward health and prosperity, and many countries are moving twice as fast as the west did.