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• Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
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• Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it… — John Legend
• Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's… — Roger Moore
• By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening,… — Brad Pitt
• Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs
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• Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards… — Jeffrey Sachs
• The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even… — Jeffrey Sachs
• If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million… — Rajiv Shah
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• The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs

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