Developing countries Quote by Guy Standing

If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot…

— Peter Singer

When people are healthy, their families, communities and countries thrive.

— Tedros Adhanom

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can…

— Jeanne Shaheen

“Throughout history, societies have suffered from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot…

— Gunnar Myrdal

A lot of our social ills are directly related to poverty, not that people of higher status don't have problems, but they have resources.

— Ashley Biden

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration…

— Helen Clark

We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting scarcer.

— Amala Akkineni

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa,…

— Tran Duc Luong

“from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological poverty, which puts the very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds…

— Naveen Jain

Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of…

— Zafrullah Chowdhury