One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
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