Comments on: Poor beat rich in MDG race

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:12:35 +0000

@JohnJay60 – Attempting to change people’s attitudes directly by telling them to have fewer kids is unlikely to work (I wouldn’t want someone telling me what to do either). Instead, my understanding is that improving general education, for women in particular, is often the most effective way to reduce birth rates among developing countries. It makes sense – if they’re at school they’re not having kids!

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Learning by short movies on TED, IFAD & Gapminder | C´s world — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:55:12 +0000

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By: Hans Rosling: Global health expert and data visionary | OBRA MAESTRA

Hans Rosling: Global health expert and data visionary | OBRA MAESTRA — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:03:49 +0000

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By: sanders

sanders — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:34:55 +0000

Brilliant presentation but is his ‘unarguable conclusion’ right? That is the missing information link here. Causality. Other events might be responsible for increasing prosperity and decreasing child mortality. what if there hadn’t been aid: these countries might even had become stronger.

I think this must be the next step in Roslings work. I hope he is right so we know how to move forward, but I am not that sure.

By: JohnJay60

JohnJay60 — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:43:43 +0000

The question is not whether ‘Bangladesh beats Sweden’ through selective selection of year-starting-points, but his mathematically unarguable conclusion that Aid does help and Things Do Improve.

Now, we must move to the social question of changing centuries or more of social attitudes that favor large numbers of live births per family based on a cultural history of high child mortality. This attitude MUST be changed to acknowledge the improvement in longevity and childhood survival rates or the mathematics of exponential growth (that is, any aggregate birthrate > 2 per female) are inexorably moving us to disaster.

By: olga cristina bermudez

olga cristina bermudez — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:39:51 +0000

It was an excellent exposition with very simple words and very didactic graphic aids. Good job Professor.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:36:49 +0000

I think this is brilliant! I suppose Roshan didn’t like having his prejudices confirmed

By: Roshan

Roshan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:21:03 +0000

Meaningless data is presented here. He is very desperate to show ‘equality’ in poor and rich countries that he starts with this in mind and makes up ways to show this. This lecture is politically correct piffle.

By: Veronica Carter

Veronica Carter — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:58:26 +0000

Thank you for this enlightening myth reducing lecture(s). I will forward your links to so many intelligent people who still believe in these myths about the world situation. These lectures are a service to humankind.
Regards,
Veronica C