Naveen Patnaik Quotes

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

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

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

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.

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

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

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.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

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

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.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

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

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.

Policies that aim to promote the livelihood security of the people - promoting employment, improving the nutritional status of children and women, expanding educational opportunities, and providing affordable healthcare - would be the first charge on the budget of a developmental state.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.