Do you think the world is going to be a better place next year? In the next decade? 你们觉得明年这个世界会变的更好吗？未来十年呢？ Can we end hunger, achieve gender equality, halt climate change, all in the next 15 years? 我
How much? Enough to get us to the Global Goals? 我们要取得多少进步来到达全球目标呢？ Well, let's look at some numbers. 咱们来看看这些数字。 What we know already: the world today is scoring 61 on social progress, and the place we
The Social Progress Index sums all this together using 52 indicators to create an aggregate score on a scale of 0 to 100. “社会进步指数”用52个指标把这些都集中到了一起，算出了一个百分制的总分。 And what we find is that there's a wide
But that ain't easy, because the Global Goals aren't just ambitious, they're also pretty complicated. 这并不容易，因为这些全球目标不仅仅很宏大，它们同样也很复杂。 Over 17 goals, there are then 169 targets and literally hundreds of
Let me show you on this chart. 我来给你们看下这张图。 So here on the vertical axis, I've put social progress, the stuff the Global Goals are trying to achieve. 我把社会进步放在这张图的纵轴上，这就是全球目标要努力实现的东西。 Higher is better.
Now this seems a bit strange. Economic growth seems to have really helped in the fight against poverty, 这看起来就有点奇怪了。经济的增长看起来对解决贫穷问题帮助很大， but it doesn't seem to be having much impact on trying to get to
What that tells us, quite simply, is that GDP is not destiny. 这也就很明确地告诉了我们，国内生产总值不是决定性的因素。 We have countries that are underperforming on social progress, relative to their wealth. 世界上有一些比较富有，然而社会进步得分比
But please, I invite you to suspend your disbelief for just a moment. 但是我建议你先搁置你的怀疑一小会儿。 Because back in 2001, the UN agreed another set of goals, the Millennium Development Goals. 因为回到2001年，那时联合国也同意了
Thank you, Michael. Michael, just one question: the Millennium Development Goals established 15 years ago, 谢谢你，Michael。Michael，我就问一个问题：千年发展目标是15年前确立的， they were kind of applying to every country but i
And I want to finish by showing you a way to do that, called the People's Report Card. 我想给你们展示一种可行的方法来结束这个演讲，这个方法叫做“人民成绩单”。 The People's Report Card brings together all this data “人民成绩单”把所有的数据 into a
