{"id":21057,"date":"2016-01-21T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T23:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/bill-gates-we-can-end-poverty"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:15:00","slug":"bill-gates-we-can-end-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/bill-gates-we-can-end-poverty","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates: We can end poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-we-can-end-poverty.jpg\"><\/a><\/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<p>Progress like that is encouraging him to believe that in a mere 14-ish more years, poverty can be wiped out. That\u2019s the cornerstone of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgoals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Goals<\/a> plan, which was been signed by the United Nations\u2019 193 countries agreed in September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bill-gates-on-ending-poverty-by-2030-2016-1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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. 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057","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=21057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68762,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions\/68762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}