Tran Duc Luong Quotes

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

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.

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

When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called Third World.

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.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

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

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'