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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

I believe the quickest and most sure way to reduce poverty, raise living standards and create jobs around the world is to make economies and governments more open and free, thereby encouraging business and entrepreneurship.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

I can't eradicate poverty, but at least for the people around me, I can help make sure no child is denied a dream.

The best route out of poverty, to avoid food bank usage, is to make sure more people get a job.

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.