Winnie Byanyima Quotes

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

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.

My main aim is poverty reduction in the state.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

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

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

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

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.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

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.

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.

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

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can improve their lives, that has a positive effect on their communities, on their families, on their countries.

It is our sacred obligation to eliminate the curse of poverty in the shortest possible time. This is non-negotiable for the Republic.

Ending extreme poverty is possible.

Britain's generosity in the world has allowed us to help the poorest countries to get on the road to industrialisation through economic development and private sector investment in the world's most difficult frontier markets, where jobs and economic opportunities are desperately needed.

Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

Eliminating global poverty will need the talent and potential of all, not just half the population.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).