Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

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.

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

After the 1970s, we accomplished economic development rapidly. But the side effect of that was high stress levels or the gap between the rich and poor. And these issues call on me to focus on the welfare and quality of life of the citizens.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Poverty affects people of all races.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Nobody in America lives at the survival level, Most people in the world would love to live the way poor Americans live.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

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

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

What is this War on Poverty? Money is going to people in Chicago who are against me.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

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

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.

Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.

There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.