# 4 steps to ending extreme poverty

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2020
- Speaker: Shameran Abed
- Year: 2020
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/shameran_abed_4_steps_to_ending_extreme_poverty)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Approximately 700 million people worldwide currently live in extreme poverty, a state of severe financial and social vulnerability that robs many of hope and dignity. BRAC, the world's largest NGO, began a sustainable, multifaceted intervention called the Graduation approach in 2002. Since then, it has helped over nine million people escape extreme poverty. Now, Shameran Abed and BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) have an audacious plan to partner with governments to bring this life-changing program to an additional 21 million people by 2026. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

## Lectures

1. [4 steps to ending extreme poverty](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/shameran_abed_4_steps_to_ending_extreme_poverty/9c68b6422651), 7 min (TED's player)