But I think it's very important to have all this information. We need really to see it. 我认为这些信息很重要。大家很有必要看到这些。 And instead of looking at this, I would like to end up by showing the Internet users per
I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." 我是个说书之人。在这里,我想和大家分享一些我本人的故事,一些关于所谓的“单一故事的危险性”的经历。 I grew up on a univ
Data is often better than you think. Many people say data is bad. 大家总说数据不准确,数据其实比我们想象的好很多。 There is an uncertainty margin, but we can see the difference here: Cambodia, Singapore. 数据是有误差,但我们看一下柬埔寨和新加坡
Some countries accept that their databases can go out on the world, 少数联合国机构和几个国家已经开放了数据库, but what we really need is, of course, a search function. 但我们最需要的是数据搜索引擎。 A search function where we can copy
We heard it in other forms. And who are these? Where are the different countries? 这是个老问题了。中间这些人是谁?他们在哪些国家? I can show you Africa. This is Africa. 10% the world population, most in poverty. 先看非洲。非洲占世界人
Let me make a comparison directly between the United States of America and Vietnam. 现在我们对比一下美国和越南。 1964. America had small families and long life; Vietnam had large families and short lives. 1964年的美国家
Because the chimpanzee would score half right if I gave them two bananas with Sri Lanka and Turkey. 因为黑猩猩能得一半的分数,如果我给它们两个分别标着斯里兰卡和土耳其的香蕉, They would be right half of the cases. But the students are no
And even more, policy makers and the corporate sectors would like to see how the world is changing. 此外,政策制定者,各企业部门,都会想知道世界的变化。 Now, why doesn't this take place? Why are we not using the data we have?
About 10 years ago, I took on the task to teach global development to Swedish undergraduate students. 大约在十年前,我担当起给瑞典大学生讲授全球发展的任务。 That was after having spent about 20 years together with African insti
But let me split sub-Saharan Africa. 下面把撒哈拉以南非洲地区分解成各个国家。 Health is there and better health is up there. 分布靠上边的国家拥有更高的健康水平。 I can go here and I can split sub-Saharan Africa into its countries. 撒哈拉以南的非
And if we move back again, here, and we put on trails on them, like this, 我们再回到过去,给每个球画出运动的轨迹, you can see again that the speed of development is very, very different, 可以看到,发展速度的差距非常大, and the countri
So this is what I could display here. 那么一起来看看。 I put fertility rate here: number of children per woman: one, two, three, four, up to about eight children per woman. X轴是生育率,每个妇女的育儿数,从每人1,2,3,4胎到8胎。 We