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“The country you live in impacts nearly every aspect of your life. From the factors I have observed, this impact can be broadly categorized into opportunities and trust. In Richland, individuals’ lives are replete with opportunity and there is little reason not to trust the institutions in their lives, yet not everything is as perfect as it seems on a mental, emotional, and cultural level. In Poorland, the daily fight for survival takes precedence over most other elements of life and trust levels are low. Even the ground a person lives on can be taken away at a moment’s notice with little opportunity or basis for defense.”

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Book:Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation

Source: Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation

“(...) Poverty reduction is not something that only happens when the powers-that-be accept our solution (...). It can happen in every interaction we have with any other human being.”

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Book:Reframing Poverty: New Thinking and Feeling About Humanity's Greatest Challenge

Source: Reframing Poverty: New Thinking and Feeling About Humanity's Greatest Challenge

“One additional unit of income can do a hundred times as much to the benefit the extreme poor as it can to benefit you or I [earning the typical US wage of $28,000 or ‎£18,000 per year]. [I]t's not often you have two options, one of which is a hundred times better than the other. Imagine a happy hour where you could either buy yourself a beet for $5 or buy someone else a beer for 5¢. If that were the case, we'd probably be pretty generous – next round's on me! But that's effectively the situation we're in all the time. It's like a 99% off sale, or buy one, get ninety-nine free. It might be the most amazing deal you'll see in your life.”

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Book:Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

Source: Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

“Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.”

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Author:Laurent Lamothe

“Women are more focused on the development of the quality of life in their countries. They are more involved in social and family policies, childcare, and poverty reduction.”

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Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.”

“Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare”

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Author:Tony Juniper

“Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.”