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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel Kant
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April 25, 1949
(age 76)
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