Anthropology Quote by Hans Rosling

As an anthropology major, I wanted to understand the cultural significance of poverty - why it exists and why some countries can rise above…

— Lauren Bush

I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I…

— Harry Belafonte

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to…

— Jim Yong Kim

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

— Thabo Mbeki

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to…

— Narendra Modi

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental…

— Stewart Brand

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I…

— Muhammad Yunus

I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that…

— Amy Lockwood

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

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

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