Senior fellow Charles Kenny was interviewed on PBS's Ideas Into Action on Progress in Africa.
From the Interview
Guests examine increases in the quality of health care and education in Africa, arguing those factors show that life on the continent is improving beyond what a strict analysis of life expectancy might show.
JIM GLASSMAN: Welcome to Ideas in Action a television series about ideas and their consequences. I'm Jim Glassman. This week: how aid and trade are improving life in Africa.
Here in America we don't often hear good news from the countries of Africa. Many times the only stories told are those of extreme suffering. But a new book examines development over the past 50 years and finds a more optimistic story. The author found that by measuring people's wellbeing through indicators other than income such as access to education and healthcare, life in Africa and other developing areas of the world is indeed getting better.
We'll discuss this topic with Charles Kenny, senior fellow with the Center for Global Development and author of Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More; and Jeni Klugman, director of the United Nations Human Development Report Office. The topic this week: measuring the quality of life in Africa. This is Ideas in Action.