Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. Fo… - Muhammad Yunus

GDP does not and cannot tell the whole story. Activities that do not require money changing hands are not counted as part of GDP — which means that, in effect, many of the things real human beings cherish most are treated as having no value. By contrast, money spent on weapons of

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.

Hungry people were everywhere. Often they sat so still that one could not be sure whether they were alive or dead. They all looked alike: men, women, children. Old people looked like children, and children looked like old people.