Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of…

Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in…

— Sharan Burrow

Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A…

— Joan Robinson

As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty,…

— Koichiro Matsuura

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

— John H. McWhorter

The greatest charity is to enable the poor to earn a living.

— Vikrant Parsai

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

— Muhammad Yunus

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

— Sherrod Brown

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

— Jessica Jackley

“People like Larraine lived with so many compounded limitations that it was difficult to imagine the amount of good behavior or self-control that would…

— Matthew Desmond

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from…

— Pranab Mukherjee

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

— Nicholas Johnson

Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.

— Jonathan Morduch

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The…

— Jeffrey Sachs

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they…

— Madeleine Albright

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

— Muhammad Yunus