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Global Poverty Quotes

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Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act  (Global Poverty Quotes) Today’s youth will determine if we’re going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030  (Global Poverty Quotes) Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don’t seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.  (Global Poverty Quotes) We may believe in the state’s responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America’s population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.  (Global Poverty Quotes) I just don’t think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.  (Global Poverty Quotes) I’m not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn’t keep me up at night.  (Global Poverty Quotes) By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty  (Global Poverty Quotes) Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference  (Global Poverty Quotes) I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it’s microfinance, whether it’s through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.  (Global Poverty Quotes) Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.  (Global Poverty Quotes) That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It’s the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.  (Global Poverty Quotes) Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one ‘silver bullet’ that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.  (Global Poverty Quotes) The planet’s biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they’re all interconnected - it’s one big problem, which is that the way we’re doing things can’t go on  (Global Poverty Quotes) If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world’s people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends  (Global Poverty Quotes) You can’t put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That’s ludicrous  (Global Poverty Quotes) The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life  (Global Poverty Quotes) In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies  (Global Poverty Quotes) A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable  (Global Poverty Quotes) As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy  (Global Poverty Quotes) The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will  (Global Poverty Quotes) Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor  (Global Poverty Quotes) Let me first say that I don’t think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal  (Global Poverty Quotes) Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty  (Global Poverty Quotes) Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other  (Global Poverty Quotes) I’m not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn’t keep me up at night  (Global Poverty Quotes)