Emily Oster Quotes

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.

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.

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth.

We refuse to share resources; we govern irresponsibly. If we are confident, if we have some of our cultural values, then we would be more committed to assisting our people out of poverty and creating an environment that can make it possible for our friends to assist us.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.

We believe that by removing a crippling debt burden we'll help millions of Africans improve their lives and grow their economies.

Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development.

India has to fight poverty, Pakistan too has to fight poverty, why don't we come together to fight poverty?

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.