Peter Singer
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first heard Nov 2020
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And that had been falling until the pandemic.
That had been steadily falling down to in 2019, it was 736 million.
It's now the World Bank estimates risen again
because of the pandemic and because of the economic slowdown in the affluent countries, which has put more people out of work in the less developed countries.
So it's risen, the World Bank says, to 833 million, so almost 100 million rise.
And that, you know, in human terms, that involves a great deal of extra hardship, more people who need help.
But we hope that as the global economy revives that
start to fall again, but we want it to fall faster.
And we want to help people more in the best possible ways.
The other thing that's important is, even if we are getting in Australia to high levels of vaccination, and many of us have less to fear from the pandemic, in the less developed countries, there's still very low vaccination rates because they haven't been able to obtain the vaccines, basically.
And sometimes, of course, they don't have the infrastructure to distribute them
around the country.
But some of the organizations we have can actually help with this.
So we're recommending Development Media International, which is an organization that puts out health information over local radio broadcasts in low-income countries where that's the only way people have of getting information.
They don't have the internet.
They don't have television.
They don't have newspapers, really.
but many of them have radios and they listen to the radio stations.
And Development Media International has again shown quite clearly by looking at areas where they are broadcasting and putting their advice on the radio and other areas where they're not.
They've shown that people take this advice, that they go into health clinics, that they get health checkups, that they get information, in this case, that they will know
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