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Poverty

It's the challenge of our age: How do we end poverty? These TED Talks -- from economists, philanthropists, activists -- share ideas and results from around the world.

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How we can feed the future

These action-oriented, forward-thinking talks offer a vision of the world where everyone has access to safe, healthy, and nutritious food — especially those who need it most. (Sponsored by Wells Fargo.)

The quest to end poverty

It's the challenge of our age: How do we end poverty? Hear ideas and results from economists, philanthropists, activists working -- in labs and on the ground -- to wipe it out.

The issue of homelessness

A basic primer on some of the hows and whys, solutions and struggles surrounding the conversation on homelessness.

Talks about Poverty

Amanda Renteria

A bold plan to transform access to the US social safety net

Why is it so hard to escape poverty?

The informal settlements reshaping the world

The seeds of change helping African farmers grow out of poverty

Cedric Habiyaremye

How quinoa can help combat hunger and malnutrition

The problem with the U.S. bail system

Jacqueline Novogratz

What it takes to make change

4 steps to ending extreme poverty

The link between climate change, health and poverty

Gayathri Vasudevan

How the coronavirus is impacting India -- and what needs to happen next

Smruti Jukur Johari

What if the poor were part of city planning?

Rachel Kleinfeld

A path to security for the world's deadliest countries

What we're getting wrong in the fight to end hunger

The TED Interview

Michael Tubbs on politics as a force for good

Reducing corruption takes a specific kind of investment

What the US health care system assumes about you

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Exclusive articles about Poverty

Why cities rule the world

Cities are the the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization -- and they're where humanity's struggle for survival will take place. Robert Muggah and Ben Barber spell out the possibilities.

Posted May 2016

What links the top 0.1 percent and the bottom billion? Rent

The economist Sir Paul Collier has spent his career thinking about how to solve global poverty. So how are we doing? Well, not as badly as you might think. He describes the current state of the world and shares thoughts on where we might usefully focus next.

Posted Jun 2014

An approach to global aid where all are treated as equals

By Lisa Katayama In a developed country where the dialogue around human rights is very charity-minded, it’s rare to find young people with visions of engaging rural farmers in developing countries as equals. That’s why Tokyo native Doga Makiura stands out. When Doga was 13, he left his home in Japan and enrolled himself in […]

Posted Feb 2014