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• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity… — Kofi Annan
• My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty. — Kirk Douglas
• We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young… — Viola Davis
• While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on… — Krafft Arnold Ehricke
• Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens,… — Michael Bassey
• For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition.… — Clare Short
• A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit… — Clive James
• With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from… — Kumi Naidoo
• We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality.… — B R Ambedkar
• We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people,… — Jane Goodall
• I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. — Kirk Douglas
• When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look… — Ratan Tata

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