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• Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.

  Pratibha Patil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accountable, Poverty

• People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty, Conclusion

• It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

  Marilynne Robinson

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  Tags in Poverty

• Poverty is a great equalizer.

  John Grisham

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  Tags in Poverty

• Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Helping, Poverty

• Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana’s gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled ‘Third World’ is edging its way into the ‘First World.’

  Peter Blair Henry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Product, Poverty

• Hae you gear, or hae you nane, tine heart and a’ is gone.

  Topics in Scottish Proverbs

  Tags in Wealth, Poverty

• A crook in the forth is worth an earldom in the north.

  Topics in Scottish Proverbs

  Tags in Wealth, Poverty

• Whoever hastens to grow rich will not go unpunished.

  Topics in Hebrew Proverbs

  Tags in Wealth, Poverty

• Poverty is no disgrace, but neither do you have to take pride in it.

  Topics in Hebrew Proverbs

  Tags in Wealth, Poverty

• The greatest charity is to enable the poor to earn a living.

  Topics in Hebrew Proverbs

  Tags in Wealth, Poverty

• One courts misfortune by flaunting wealth.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Wealth, Poverty

• Burn one day’s gathering of firewood on the same day.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Wealth, Poverty

• Wealth and obscurity cannot equal poverty and fame.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Wealth, Poverty

• Great wealth is a gift from heaven; moderate wealth results from frugality.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Wealth, Poverty

• Wealth consists not of having great possessions but of having few wants.

  Topics in American Proverbs

  Tags in Wealth, Poverty

• Poverty is being single.

  M.F. Moonzajer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty

• Hardworking men and women who are busting their tails in full-time jobs shouldn’t be left in poverty.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Poverty, Hardworking

• I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

  Paul Krugman

  Topics in Democracy, Society

  Tags in Institutions, Poverty

• India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can’t afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can’t allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Healthcare, Poverty