Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

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

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

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

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

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

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

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

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

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

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

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.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

Attacking poverty is very expensive, and means doing things politically that are either impossible or very difficult to bring off.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do that, we need to attack the social problems, and extreme poverty is probably the worst of those.

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

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

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

Ending extreme poverty is possible.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.