Reducing Poverty Quotes:

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Equality, Goal, Challenges, Reducing, Equality For All

Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.

- Jeff Sessions

topic: Self, Goal, Poverty, Economic Value, Promoting

Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what the country has to offer,

- Michelle Bachelet

topic: Country, Opportunity, Creating, Reducing Poverty

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

- Francois Bourguignon

topic: Country, Growth, Progress, Reducing Poverty

Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.

- Leila Janah

topic: Opportunity, Poverty, Banking, Reducing Poverty

Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.

- Joan Robinson

source: Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.9, Academic Press

topic: Growth, Pay, Poverty, Reducing Poverty, Should Have Known