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So the prescription to end energy poverty is much more complicated than simply products.

Many of the talks yesterday talked about improving the quality of life, and reducing poverty, and essentially increasing life expectancy all around the globe.

But I would go further and say that making systems work, whether in health care, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty, is the great task of our generation as a whole.

You probably know that roughly 25 million people in Africa are infected with the virus, that AIDS is a disease of poverty, and that if we can bring Africa out of poverty, we would decrease AIDS as well.

You need to get out of the deepest poverty so children are not of importance for work in the family.

And we will be just 10 billion in this world, if the poorest people get out of poverty, their children survive, they get access to family planning.

What else? Sexism, racism and poverty affect gun ownership and gun-related fatalities.

So after analyzing mounds of data, what we discovered was this: Unemployment and poverty alone did not lead to the Arab revolts of 2011.

What emerges is a truly sad, horrific tale of a young girl and her family trapped in poverty.

So our feeling is, if it's good enough for the rugby team, it's good enough for health and poverty.

It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

But the mineral wealth of Africa is not being utilized to lift its people out of poverty.

Now, I'm sure you all keep a copy of the goals under your pillow, or by the bedside table, but just in case you don't, and your memory needs some jogging, the deal agreed then goes like this: developing countries promised to at least halve extreme poverty, hunger and deaths from disease, alongside some other targets, by 2015, and developed nations promised to help them get that done by dropping debts, increasing smart aid, and trade reform.

Now sure, progress in China and India and poverty reduction there was key to that, but recently also in Africa, poverty rates are being reduced.

Last year, Americans killed each other at a rate of 5.3 per hundred thousand, had seven percent of their citizens in poverty and emitted 21 million tons of particulate matter and four million tons of sulfur dioxide.

But 30 years ago, the homicide rate was 8.5 per hundred thousand, poverty rate was 12 percent and we emitted 35 million tons of particulate matter and 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide.

Last year, the world had 12 ongoing wars, 60 autocracies, 10 percent of the world population in extreme poverty and more than 10,000 nuclear weapons.

But 30 years ago, there were 23 wars, 85 autocracies, 37 percent of the world population in extreme poverty and more than 60,000 nuclear weapons.

200 years ago, 90 percent of the world's population subsisted in extreme poverty.

The papers could have run the headline, "137,000 people escaped from extreme poverty yesterday" every day for the last 25 years.

That's one and a quarter billion people leaving poverty behind, but you never read about it.

Almost all of my kids live below poverty.

Most disease is correlated with poverty, but in the case of childhood cancers, the children who were dying seemed mostly to come from affluent families.

The Congo consistently scores dreadfully in global health and poverty rankings.

I also found out that the bakery was nothing like a business, that, in fact, it was a classic charity run by a well-intentioned person, who essentially spent 600 dollars a month to keep these 20 women busy making little crafts and baked goods, and living on 50 cents a day, still in poverty.

The second is that traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

I think Andrew pretty well covered that, so I will move to the third point, which is that markets alone also are not going to solve the problems of poverty.

But it's only half the story if we're really looking at solving problems of poverty, because it's not long-term sustainable.

The point is that then we are freed up to do other things, and what we're going to do, I am very confident, what we're going to do is reduce poverty and drudgery and misery around the world.

You could be looking there at poverty, injustice, all those sorts of things which feed terrorism.

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