Hilary Benn Quotes

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

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

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

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

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.'

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

My mission is to eradicate 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.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

Economic growth can enable development if it is supplemented by public policies that encourage circulation of wealth, especially into crucial areas such as public healthcare and education.

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.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

More people in more countries, both developing and developed, have experienced larger increases in living standards than in any prior fifty year period.

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

China is a developing country and we regard subsistence as the fundamental human right.

… authors generally neglect that growth has lifted billions of people out of grinding poverty and that others may remain poor because of the developed world’s environmental concerns …

The economic development of the country must come first. Education and the raising of the standards of the people will follow. Afterwards political development may be possible.