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> [In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-mitchell/in-india-there-are-more-poor-people-in-three-states-than-there-are-in/)

[Andrew Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-mitchell/)

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> [George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-clinton/george-w-bush-is-very-popular-in-sub-saharan-africa-why-because-of/)

[Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillary-clinton/)

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> [One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ngozi-okonjo-iweala/one-in-four-sub-saharan-africans-is-nigerian-and-it-has-140-million/)

[Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ngozi-okonjo-iweala/)

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> [Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/half-of-the-hospital-beds-in-sub-saharan-africa-are-filled-with/)

[Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/)

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> [There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-rosling/there-is-still-a-severe-and-scary-amount-of-extreme-poverty-in-rural/)

[Hans Rosling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-rosling/)

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> [In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-gibbs/in-sub-saharan-africa-fewer-than-1-in-5-girls-make-it-to-secondary/)

[Nancy Gibbs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-gibbs/)

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> [One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-zoellick/one-of-the-challenges-for-sub-saharan-africa-is-that-markets-are-of/)

[Robert Zoellick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-zoellick/)

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> [No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-black/no-one-could-seriously-dispute-that-almost-all-of-sub-saharan-africa/)

[Conrad Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-black/)

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> [The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-chan/the-world-health-organization-did-a-world-health-report-in-2006-in/)

[Margaret Chan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-chan/)

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> [Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcee-hastings/yesterday-in-this-country-we-had-people-die-of-hunger-and/)

[Alcee Hastings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcee-hastings/)

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> [In Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture represents two-thirds of all employment, governments are proving that resource commitments yield success. In 2004, African heads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-mathews-burwell/in-sub-saharan-africa-where-agriculture-represents-two-thirds-of-all/)

[Sylvia Mathews Burwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-mathews-burwell/)

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