poverty Quotes

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and... ...

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.