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The Bottom Billion (2007)
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Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.
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Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.
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Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.
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Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.
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Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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April 25, 1949
(age 75)
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