Quotes About Poverty Alleviation

#1. The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. Poverty alleviation occurs when the power of Christ's resurrection reconciles our key relationships through the transformation of both individual lives and local, national, and international systems.

Brian Fikkert

#3. It's sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones.

Auliq Ice

#4. Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

F. Sionil Jose

#5. Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

Muhammad Yunus

#6. We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence and self imposed poverty nonsense.

Auliq Ice

#7. I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.

Leila Janah

#8. Sometime playing dumb is the only move you've got.

Kendare Blake

#9. MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.

Auliq Ice

#11. Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

Jim Yong Kim

#12. If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty ...
the only thing we know definitely works
is giving women control over their own reproduction

Christopher Hitchens

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Mary Louise Kelly

#14. Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Leila Janah

#15. The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live

Agona Apell

#16. Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery.

Auliq Ice

#17. The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.

Auliq Ice

#18. Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space ... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent.

Alfred Rosenberg

#19. I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Dambisa Moyo

#20. Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#21. I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

Leila Janah

#22. The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

Jonathan Sacks

#23. Hings are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Muhammad Yunus

#24. Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time ...

Paulo Coelho

#25. It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

Idowu Koyenikan

#26. World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Jim Yong Kim

#27. How can poverty be alleviated?
When nobody eats until everyone eats at the same time.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

Paul Collier

#29. Poverty is everywhere, Zarish. People should have the courage to get out of the vicious circle of it.

Sara Naveed

#30. Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

Fareed Zakaria

#31. It's the least I can do, to come back with some strong music.

Mystikal