Development Quote by Jeffrey Sachs

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The…

— 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 the barest…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

— Jeffrey Sachs

...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human…

— Kofi Annan

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to…

— Roger Moore

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to…

— John Legend

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

— Kofi Annan

All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1%…

— Jeffrey Sachs

It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global…

— Jeffrey Sachs

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially…

— Jeffrey Sachs