Vicente Fox Quotes

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

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

In the first phase of economic development you have rising inequality.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.

We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth.

There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what we're selling.

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

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Poverty decreased in America as a result of the War on Poverty

The only remedy for Mexico's poverty which has appealed to our politicians has been to contract foreign loans, which have never been paid, and to invite foreign capital to invest in Mexico.

When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

Because of poverty, we must adopt the capitalist means of production to develop our resources to get rich. However, if we ignore the issue of social justice at the beginning of China's industrialization, we will sow the seeds of class warfare in the future.

It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.

The benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in academic literature but also among policymakers globally.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.