Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, Technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

I believe mobile technology has a much broader role to play. It could solve some of the biggest problems on earth.

The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.

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.

I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

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.

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

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.

Technology has become our culture

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

The world is at a crossroads. Our generation may be the first in history with the knowledge, tools and resources to truly turn back the rising tide of hunger and misery.

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