{"id":1004,"date":"2015-09-16T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2015-09-16T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T10:30:17","slug":"is-this-the-answer-to-ending-extreme-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/around-ou\/tv-radio\/is-this-the-answer-to-ending-extreme-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the answer to ending extreme poverty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internationally-renowned statistician Professor Hans Rosling asks whether it’s possible to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 in a one-hour BBC programme made in partnership with The Open University.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Panic: How to End Poverty in 15 Years<\/em> <\/a>considers whether the goal set by the United Nations (UN) of wiping out\u00a0\u2018extreme poverty\u2019 for almost one billion people living on $1 a day is achievable.<\/p>\n

Professor Rosling is one of the world\u2019s most influential speakers, offering an eye-opening, engaging way of interacting with his audience, including a presentation style packed with data. \u00a0For Don\u2019t Panic<\/em> he brings to life the key target of the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals by\u00a0combining\u00a0powerful statistics with dramatic human stories from Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Panic<\/em> was commissioned by The Open University Open Media Unit (OMU) and is supported by academics from the Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology (MCT), the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Health and Social Care (HSC).<\/p>\n

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Photo by Adam Tinworth<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internationally-renowned statistician Professor Hans Rosling asks whether it’s possible to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 in a one-hour BBC programme made in partnership with The Open University. Don\u2019t Panic: How to End Poverty in 15 Years considers whether the goal set by the United Nations (UN) of wiping out\u00a0\u2018extreme poverty\u2019 for almost one billion people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[232,1760,1800,2112,2278],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-radio","tag-bbc","tag-poverty","tag-professor-hans-rosling","tag-statistician","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}