KINGS New Insights On Poverty By Hans Rosling TedTalk Video Review

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😇 ted vide is 18 minutes

Name of the video: new insights on poverty - Hans Roslin

Assignment

Part A – 80% Word Limit 800 words

Part B – 20% Word Limit 300 words

Part A

1. What were the major ideas that the speaker(s) were attempting to convey to the audience?

2. How were the data presented?

3. How did the data presentation illustrate unexpected outcomes?

4. What are the most important things this video has taught you about using statistics?

Part B

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Running head: NEW INSIGHTS ON POVERTY

New Insights on Poverty
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NEW INSIGHTS ON POVERTY

New Insights on Poverty
PART ONE:
1. What were the major ideas that the speaker(s) were attempting to convey to the
audience?
New Insights on poverty is a talk by Hans Rosling that describes how countries are
dealing with poverty. He uses descriptive statistics and illustrations to show how income
levels vary across nations in the world. The speaker focuses on issues of fertility rate,
pollution, mortality rates, emerging economies, and health and education level. These factors
are related to the central theme of poverty and vary depending on whether a nation is
developed or developing. The video shows that poverty has changed drastically for the past
50 years, especially for Asian countries like China and India. However, not much has
changed in Africa, in part because the continent has not experience the same social, political
changes that dominated Europe and Asia before the industrial revolution. Africa has
remained relatively poor because of large families and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The speaker shows a remarkable trend about health and children mortality for nations
in the past 50 years. Western nations like the US continued getting rich in the 1950s, but
health conditions did not improve relative to economic growth. However, Asian and Arabic
countries witnessed improved social life especially healthcare quality although their economy
did not progress like that of the US. In the emerging economies, social progress and benefits
are moving ahea...


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