Carol Bellamy Quotes

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

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

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

We must moderate both opulence and indigence by raising the wages of the poor, improving their habits, and lifting them above ignorance, plunder, and theft.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

Prohibiting Poverty

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

We need one America - one that includes housing, education, jobs, access to capital, and economic inclusion for every American. This will create a stronger America.

In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

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.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given.

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

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

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

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.