Gates: Economy makes work harder, not different
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Although the economic crisis won't change his focus on global health and U.S. education, Bill Gates said the woes are making his work harder.
In particular, Gates said that beyond the prospect of lower aid budgets, the biggest factor in reducing disease and hunger is actually the underlying growth in the area in question--something that is now stalled globally.
Bill and Melinda Gates visit demonstration plots at the IITA Research Station in Abuja, Nigeria in October 2006.
"Economic success has been this phenomenal thing," Gates said. "Whenever that clock is running slower or even briefly goes into a period where it is going back, it is really a very negative thing. It blocks a lot that is important." Gates' comments came during a conference call with reporters, following the release of a public letter on the foundation's progress.