Economic Quote by Ollanta Humala

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways…

— Michelle Bachelet

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

— Seneca the Younger

Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A…

— Joan Robinson

The first thing we should acknowledge is that poverty is hugely expensive. It varies from country to country, but most of the time it's…

— Rutger Bregman

I made an effort to ensure social safeguards. But our economy has to grow - and Chile, with a population of 17 million, cannot…

— Michelle Bachelet

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

— Amartya Sen

There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a sustainable thought.…

— Amartya Sen

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible…

— Pete Townshend

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

— Rajnath Singh

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

Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America,…

— Harry Belafonte

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