poverty Quotes

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.

In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the... ...

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate.... ...

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to work against the co-operation, whether it's climate change, immigration, innovation, helping the very poorest. Those are things where... ...

If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.