Bank Quote by Angus Deaton

“The absence of money doesn’t mean poverty.”

— Benh Zeitlin

There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index.

— Bob Tyrrell

Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

— Jeroen Dijsselbloem

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

— Milton Friedman

The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been…

— Thomas Pogge

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

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

— H. Rap Brown

A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it…

— William T. Vollmann

There is no way out of poverty except through service.

— Ore Abayomi

GDP excludes care work and other unpaid work, most of which falls to women and girls in rich and in poor countries alike.

— Winnie Byanyima

Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they…

— Leila Janah

Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs of the…

— Thomas Pogge