Example Quote by Abhijit Banerjee

“In India, as in other poor countries, we have a line that is invisible and abstract and yet more powerful and pervasive than anything…

— Kiran Nagarkar

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is…

— Mohnish Pabrai

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their…

— Vijay Mallya

The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it…

— Robert Reich

Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among…

— Indira Gandhi

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor…

— Sri Mulyani Indrawati

While easy to understand, the income-based poverty line has limitations. Specifically, the median monthly household income measures only income without considering assets.

— Carrie Lam

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from…

— Arundhati Roy

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white;…

— Kathleen Blanco

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

— Indira Gandhi

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a…

— Rumi