poverty Quotes

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.