Around the world, poverty is collapsing

Programme website: http://bbc.in/1NI8ZAw Hans Rosling on the extraordinary changes in income across the world.

Great news. According to the Spectator magazine:

The World Health Organisation, the United Nations, the OECD, the World Bank – all of them now keep annually updated records of human progress, and the story told by these metrics is the greatest story of our age.

So why don’t we hear more about it?