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The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice. -- Hugh Evans
Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might. -- Leila Janah
You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous. -- Noel Gallagher
I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on. -- Alex Steffen
Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. -- William J. Clinton
By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty. -- Peter Diamandis
Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor. -- Michel Chossudovsky
Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty. -- Jonathan Morduch
I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty. -- Marc Andreesen
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. -- Bill Gates
Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night. -- Andy Stanley
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road. -- Iqbal Quadir
It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks. -- Thomas Pogge
Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other. -- Nicholas Stern
Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty. -- Nelson Mandela
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty. -- Peter Singer
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. -- Al Franken
With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential. -- Helene D. Gayle
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. -- Oscar Arias
Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act -- Jonathan Dimbleby
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world. -- Adam Braun
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends -- Gordon Brown
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it. -- Kabir Sehgal
Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies. -- Amy Lockwood
Today's youth will determine if we're going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030 -- Desmond Oshifeso
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable -- Thabo Mbeki
I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty. -- Marc Andreesen
That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will. -- Natalie Portman

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