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The math on ending extreme poverty has never looked better. That's partly because the evidence on what happens when we simply give money to people living in poverty, with no strings attached, has been so much better than we were led to expect. And it's partly because people living in extreme poverty have made so much progress on their own. The bottom line? We could end extreme poverty at a cost so low that none of us would notice the difference. Paul is an economist and entrepreneur working to accelerate the end of extreme poverty.

He is Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair in Economics at UC San Diego. His research examines the design, implementation, and impact of anti-poverty programs at large scales.

He is also co-founder of a series of companies working to amplify capital flows to emerging markets. He is co-founder, former president, and current director at GiveDirectly, the leading international NGO specialized in digital cash transfers and consistently rated one of the most impactful ways to give. He subsequently co-founded and served as a director of the enterprise payments company Segovia and the digital remittance company Taptap Send.

Paul is a recipient of a Sloan Fellowship and has been named a "Top 100 Global Thinker" by Foreign Policy magazine and one of Vox's "Future Perfect 50." He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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