Arancha Gonzalez Quotes

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

Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.

Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.

The best cure for poverty is a booming economy.

A generation of entrepreneurs will mop up poverty at a rate that no government ever could.

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Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.

While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.

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.

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

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

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

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

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

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

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.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

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

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

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

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.