American Quote by Hugh Evans

Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

— Michel Chossudovsky

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

— William J. Clinton

I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It…

— Pope Francis

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

— Pope Francis

Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must…

— Adam Braun

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose…

— Adam Davidson

Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.

— Sharan Burrow

“...poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but…

— Anonymous

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

— Benjamin Mkapa

“Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption and mismanagement…

— Moutasem Algharati