Dambisa Moyo Quotes

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

The government of Macau, of China, has been empirical and pragmatic and has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, a feat unequaled in the history of civilization in any country.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

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.

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

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

If Jeff Bezos and I had started Amazon.com in a poverty-stricken corner of Africa, there would have been no job creation because there would be no people to buy the stuff from Amazon.com. The difference here is the American middle class, which is by every measure the most extraordinary economic achievement in the history of the world.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

We must embark on a bold new program for ... the improvement and growth of undeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery .... For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of these people.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.