Jasmin Whitbread, CEO of Save the Children, spoke with HuffPost Live at Davos on Wednesday about the major progress that has been made to help lessen the severity of issues like poverty, child mortality and hunger.
Whitbread blogged for HuffPost about the big achievement:
When the international community came together in 2000, to develop the Millennium Development Goals, we made the biggest promise to its poorest people that we would tackle absolute poverty, child mortality, hunger — and that promise has now been partially, but substantially, fulfilled. Together, we’ve succeeded in lifting 600 million people out of poverty, helped 56 million more children go to school, and substantially reduced the gap in primary enrollment between boys and girls. Thanks to the commitments made, the numbers of children under five dying of preventable causes has dropped by nearly half from 12 million in 1990 to 6.3 million today.
But Whitbread said there’s still work to be done.
“This could be the turning point, on the other hand, this could flitter away,” she said.
Whitbread said there need to be a redoubled effort on the area of nutrition, and any progress made could impact areas closer to home than many may think.
“We still have a first world and a third world, but they’re not geographic anymore — they cut right across,” Whitbread said.
Below, more updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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Cramer said consumers are starting to consider what they need, where to get it, what they pay for it before investing in products.
Aron Cramer, president and CEO of BSR, talked to HuffPost Live about social responsibility.
“Social responsibility is not about doing less… it’s about coming up with innovative products and services that meet the needs of the 21st century,” he said.
Adam Grant describes how the showrunner of ‘The Shield’ stopped male writers from talking over their female counterparts.
“I do think it’s fair to say Muslims have a responsibility to reform the culture,” Zakaria said.
“You have a greater chance of drowning in your bathtub in the United States than being killed by an international terrorist,” Zakaria said.
BSA President Victoria Espinel talks about how technology is impacting government, transparency and trade.
Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, joins HuffPost Live at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos.
