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• It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead…
• Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
• The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of…
• Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards…
• All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less…
• The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so…
• The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even…
• Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They…
• The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction;…
• The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.
• In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets…
• It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

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