Background Quote by Jim Yong Kim

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men…

— L. Neil Smith

Poverty has become a big problem.

— Alberto Fernandez

There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.

— Craig Kielburger

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

— Thabo Mbeki

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade,…

— Bob Geldof

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

— Rajnath Singh

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

— Seneca the Younger

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of…

— Johan Norberg

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When…

— Hans Rosling

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

Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and…

— Naveen Jain

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

— Marc Forne Molne