Family Quote by Carrie Lam

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their…

— George Gilder

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

— Thomas Pogge

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other…

— Muhammad Yunus

Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If you were…

— Thomas Sowell

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is…

— Bill Gates

“Poverty is not a natural conclusion. It is an intervention. We are not poor because we are inferior as a group of people; we…

— Frances Varian

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

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 a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

— Jonah Goldberg

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

— George Bernard Shaw