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We are trying to end poverty in the world by 2030 and we’re going to focus especially on the well-being of the bottom 40 per cent of every country.

— Jim Yong Kim

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One of the sticking points of getting foreign medical staffs into these three countries has been the lack of medical evacuation.

We understand that peace, justice and development go hand in hand ... we sent that message very strongly.

China and India played a much larger role than they did before in providing these funds for the poorest countries.

We’re interested in the peace but we understand that peace, justice and development go hand in hand. And I think we sent that message very strongly.

I have very clear ideas about what it’s going to take to end extreme poverty and to share prosperity. In fact, this is what I’ve been doing my whole life. I feel like I’m here for a reason.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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