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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

— Jeb Bush

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

— Robert Kennedy

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

— Sri Mulyani Indrawati

What happens in one region affects people across the world.

— Reuven Rivlin

Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.

— Andrew Mwenda

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

— Amy Goodman

Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.

— Raghuram Rajan

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

— Sri Mulyani Indrawati

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Bill Gates

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

— Robert D. Kaplan