People were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base ...

I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the polici...

We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let s take the next impossible, do it with joy and get it finished with and create a world free from poverty. Let us......

Even today we don t pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn t be poor ...

The one message that we are trying to promote all the time, that poverty in the world is an artificial creation. It doesn t belong to human civilization, and we can change that, we can make people come out of poverty and have the real state of affairs.......

Do the poor actually need this service or product? Will it make their lives better by providing them with this new thing? If not, then there is no need for it. Then it has to be affordable enough for the poor; otherwise the poor will not be able......

In the world that we re familiar with, the solution for poverty is the creation of jobs. ...

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability ...

The more I studied Jobra rsquo;s poverty, the more I realized how important it was to differentiate between the really poor and the marginal farmers. International development programs in rural areas always focus on farmers and landowners. In Bangaldesh, half of the to...

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general eco...