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

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

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

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.