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RESEARCH NOTES (CORNELL STYLE) Name: ___ __________

Full Citation: The purpose of my essay is to argue that the world is getting better.

Notes From the Text:

My Thoughts:

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Meet the Five-Year-Old Boy Bill Gates Put on the Cover of TIME:

Mohamad Nasir, 5, in Ethiopia

When Mohamad Nasir first met Bill Gates in 2012 in his home country of Ethiopia, the child was less than a month old and had recently received vaccinations against polio, measles, and more. Today, thanks to his early and ongoing health care, Mohamad is an active and curious five-year-old who loves sports and is quick to welcome a visitor. Mohamad’s life represents an important milestone for his community and for the world.

In 1990, the number of children who died in Ethiopia from preventable causes was staggering: one in five children didn’t live to their fifth birthday. In response, the country took substantial measures to combat the problem. In 2000, Ethiopia’s government made a commitment to improve health care and address the lack of health care providers in rural areas of the country.

Ethiopia was able to drop its mortality rates for children under-five death by two-thirds from 1990 and 2012—an impressive feat for a low-income country. Part of that strategy came from expanding community health care and training health extension workers. These workers are paid by the government to provide health services to people living in and around their village health posts, as well as make house calls and provide educational outreach activities.

(http://time.com/5071035/meet-the-five-year-old-boy-bill-gates-put-on-the-cover-of-time/)

Gates says, surveying this progress, “the world is getting better.”

There is a lot of change in health care. The deaths of mothers and kids have been reduced. They were a big part of the population who was not coming to the hospital due to economical problems. Now these people can get free health services from nearby hospitals.

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Why The World Is Getting Better And Why Hardly Anyone Knows It?

Even the Bible tells us that “The poor you will always have with you.” And it's customary to see poverty as so intractable, even insoluble, that organizations like the World Bank might as well try boiling the ocean. Statistics show otherwise. Massive gains have been made in reducing extreme poverty, particularly in the last 50 years. Some countries that are now rich were poor just a few decades ago.

Two hundred years ago, only a privileged few were not living in extreme poverty. For all the ills of industrialization, increased productivity made it possible to lift steadily more people out of extreme poverty. At first, the progress was steady: in 1950 75% of the world were still living in extreme poverty. But today, those living in extreme poverty are now less than 10%.

(https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2017/11/30/why-the-world-is-getting-better-why-hardly-anyone-knows-it/#415c15547826)

We are in a world where knowledge and education are improving dramatically. But It’s ironic. There is widespread abysmal ignorance about the improving state of the world. More than 9 out of 10 people do not think that the world is getting better.

I think the media are partly to blame. The media does not tell us how the world is changing, it tells us where the world is going wrong. It tends to focus on single events particularly single events that have gone bad. By contrast, positive developments happen slowly with no particular event to promote in a headline. “More people are healthy today than yesterday,” just doesn’t cut it.

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The education story is equally encouraging. Data shows that the share of the world population that is literate over the last 2 centuries has gone from a tiny elite to a world where 8 out of 10 people can read and write.

(https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2017/11/30/why-the-world-is-getting-better-why-hardly-anyone-knows-it/#415c15547826)

All these gains were enabled by improvements in knowledge and education. And education continues to improve globally. In this area, Our World In Data forecasts a future where education will continue on its improvement path.

Summary:

We are discovering that global poverty reduction has been a success, not a failure. When people believe that they are failing, they risk losing faith in each other. Greater awareness of our history can build confidence to tackle the remaining problems. Although easy gains have been made and harder challenges lie ahead, we now know much more about the solutions. For instance, we know that the key to population limits is getting people out of poverty: above $10,000 per capita, population growth drops precipitously. Paradoxically, the key to saving the environment is growing faster! We now know much more about how to adapt. The idea that we should do things today as we did them yesterday has given way to a realization that if further progress is to be made, we must learn to adapt even faster. Management practices that aim at preserving the status quo are bottlenecks in the effort to achieve further progress. Innovation must be continuous if we are to master the challenges that lie before us. In a world of accelerating change, and increasing complexity, organizations must learn how to become more agile.