Our priorities for saving the world Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising...

What do we really know about the spread of AIDS? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Emily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about the sp...

Greening the ghetto Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx &#8212...

The "shadow cities" of the future Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities, finds the world’s squatter sites — where a billion people now make their homes -- to be thrivi...

Why squatter cities are a good thing Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Rural villages worldwide are being deserted, as billions of people flock to cities to live in teeming squatter camps and slums. Stewart Brand says...

How to help Africa? Do business there Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 We know the negative images of Africa — famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, there’s another,...

New insights on poverty and life around the world Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing ho...

Tackling poverty with "patient capital" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Jacqueline Novogratz shares stories of how "patient capital" can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services — and dignity -- to the world’s...

Let’s take a new look at African aid Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 In this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the "African question" — to look beyond the media’s stories of pov...

The power of the mobile phone to end poverty Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator co...

Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-...

Educating a new generation of African leaders Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Patrick Awuah makes the case that a liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders.

4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Around the world right now, one billion people are trapped in poor or failing countries. How can we help them? Economist Paul Collier lays out a b...