Bono: Extreme Poverty Set to Vanish by 2028

U2 frontman and global anti-poverty activist Bono says that "extreme poverty" -- that is, the number of people around the world living on less than $1.25 a day, counting inflation -- is "on a trend line to vanish" by 2028.

"This isn't Pollyanna-ish rockstar nonsense, it's real," Bono told a small gathering of press at TED 2013 in Long Beach.

During his TED talk Tuesday morning, Bono displayed a number of graphs of leading global poverty indicators -- including, most tellingly, child mortality -- that are all heading towards zero before 2030.

"Think about it," he said. "That's only three Rolling Stones farewell concerts away. There are so many benefits -- for one thing, you won't…
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