"If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty."

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Source : Rajiv Shah's Remarks at The Aspen Institute, 2012-2017.usaid.gov. August 1, 2012.

Rajiv Shah

#Country Quotes #Keys Quotes #People Quotes

“I think it would be really rotten to tell boys that schools won't cater for them properly because men have unquestionably been dominant for thousands of years. A feminism that deliberately neglects boys is immoral in my opinion.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.”
“House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right.”
“Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right. ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them.”
“Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.”
“What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.”
“I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.”

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“I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.”

Source : "Ben McKenzie, Regina King and John Wells Visit Southland". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 04, 2009.

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