Sri Mulyani Indrawati Quotes

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

There is not enough wealth in the cities to redistribute it from those who are wealthy to those who are poor.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

It's not an underclass anymore; it's an outer class.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.