As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow.

While global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, the number of people living in poverty, below $5 per day, has increased by more than 1.1 billion. Why is this? Because past a certain point, GDP growth begins to produce more negative outcomes than positive ones – more '' than wealth.

The more we increase in numbers, the more we starve and become poorer. ... Either our population will shrink, or our territory will expand.

The price of growth is outgrowing people.

growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

In the first place I identify this ["the equilibrium of poverty"] with primitive agriculture, and two factors have been at work there. One is, of course, population growth. If you were a poor farmer in India, Pakistan, or in much of Africa, you would want as many sons as possible as your social security. They would keep you out of the hot sun and give you some form of subsistence in your old age. So, you have pressure for population growth that is, itself, the result of the extreme economic insecurity. This is something which hasn't been sufficiently emphasized.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

This is where I would like to bring up the subject of equity. Economic statistics show that although there has been GDP growth over the past 23 years, the number of families living in poverty has increased - up to about 5 million families or 27.6 million people. This demonstrates that benefits of that growth have accrued to the wealthy. The rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. This is clearly unacceptable to all of us.

Economic globalization as far as it is affected by selfishness and sin causes globalization of poverty.

Rapid economic growth brought about stress on the human organism, even though by conventional measures the standard of living was increasing.

Growth comes with pain.

We must acknowledge that the utter poverty of hundreds of millions of people is not a matter for compassion only, but a threat in the long term to the growth and vigor of the global economic system. We must see it as a part of our charge to help create economic opportunity so that the gap between the richest and poorest does not grow ever wider.

You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty.