{"id":101286,"date":"2020-01-23T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/bill-gates-we-can-end-poverty-by-2030"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:03:52","slug":"bill-gates-we-can-end-poverty-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/bill-gates-we-can-end-poverty-by-2030","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates: We can end poverty by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-we-can-end-poverty-by-2030.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, he published<a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/gates-foundation-2016-priorities-by-bill-gates-and-melinda-gates-2016-01\"> an essay on the worldwide effort<\/a> to end poverty by 2030, and he says that he\u2019s very much a believer that it can be done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is good reason for optimism about progress on reducing inequity,\u201d he writes. He published the essay from Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is taking place this week.<\/p>\n<p>Gates points out that since the turn of the century, \u201cMaternal deaths have almost halved; child mortality and malaria deaths have halved; extreme poverty has more than halved.\u201d Plus, thanks to the Global Fund, a project supported by the Gates Foundation, 17 million lives have been saved from malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, he published an essay on the worldwide effort to end poverty by 2030, and he says that he\u2019s very much a believer that it can be done. \u201cThere is good reason for optimism about progress on reducing inequity,\u201d he writes. He published the essay from Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}