Alok Sharma Quotes

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can improve their lives, that has a positive effect on their communities, on their families, on their countries.

Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

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

Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.

While the overall goal of any society must be to educate all its members, at this stage in human history the greatest need is to educate women and girls. For over twenty years, studies have consistently documented that, of all possible investments, educating women and girls pays the highest overall dividends in terms of social development, the eradication of poverty and the advancement of community.

Ending extreme poverty is possible.

Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.

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

Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

I have always said that I want Malawi to attain growth that should not just be seen in GDP, but in the growth of opportunities for all, protection for all, and equality for all.

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.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

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.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

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

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

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

Some policies may promote growth in ways that will increase poverty; others may promote growth in ways that will reduce it. Some growth strategies may be good for the environment; others may not be.