(FILES) This file photo taken on April 17, 2016 shows Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates as he speaks on financial development during the annual International Monetary Fund, World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, DC. Want to end extreme poverty? Technology hyper-billionaire Bill Gates says the answer is chickens. And that's not the name of new Microsoft software.Gates, the founder of the world's largest software company, says the best thing to improve the lives of the world's poorest is not computers or the Internet but raising a few roosters and hens."It's pretty clear to me that just about anyone who's living in extreme poverty is better off if they have chickens," he said this week on his website GatesNotes.com. / AFP PHOTO / Mandel NganMANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
