Ramez Naam Quotes

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

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

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

Countries with higher incomes on average achieve better human development. I do not believe that growth alone will 'cure' poverty. But I do believe that growth is necessary.

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.

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.

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.

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

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

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.

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

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

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

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

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

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.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

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.

Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

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.

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