Asia has more than twice as many severely deprived children as sub-Saharan Africa. This scale of child poverty will have a serious impact on Asia's future prospects, unless it is addressed now.
Michael Diamond
Related Asia has more than twice as many severely deprived children as sub-Saharan Africa. This scale of chi... MICHAEL DIAMOND Development can really work everywhere. But most of sub-Saharan Africa, the Andean region, and Centr... JEFFREY SACHS There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afgha... HANS ROSLING In terms of the rates of injury, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are regions of the world where ro... ADNAN HYDER In terms of the rates of injury, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are regions of the world where ro... DR ADNAN HYDER In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school. NANCY GIBBS I think most of the people watching us around the world really don't understand the level of devasta... OPRAH WINFREY In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Af... ANDREW MITCHELL Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON must be expanded to maximize economic activities among a variety of sectors and to ensure a real and... DONALD PAYNE I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child la... KAILASH SATYARTHI I'm the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and... LEILA JANAH One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional... ROBERT ZOELLICK In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of tho... CLAUDIO HUMMES Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are gener... ROSE GEORGE Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. BONO This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very ... DONALD EVANS The truth is we're not even close to meeting the MDGs. Conditions in sub-Saharan Africa are worse no... ANDREW GEORGE Tobacco has to be addressed and fought now because the children and young people of Asia are becomin... GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita... EVAN OSNOS George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Em... HILLARY CLINTON When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a s... FOREST WHITAKER [Calling the measure a] serious provocation, ... restricts Taiwan's freedom and democracy, and has a... JOSEPH WU Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of childr... GRACE ABBOTT Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will hav... ALBERT GORE I find it utterly inconceivable, frankly, that we can have the type of potential fiscal outlook, whi... ALAN GREENSPAN Will father be there?" she asked. John turned to her in astonishment. Your fat... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD With this greenhouse opening, and the training of competent staff to manage it, Kenya and KARI have ... MASA IWANAGA Once a disease like AIDS reaches the kind of proportions we see in sub-Saharan Africa it is no longe... PETER WALKER Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this countr... ALCEE HASTINGS In the future, ... people will live twice as long, computers will die twice as fast. FUTURAMA I call on Government in Nigeria and across Africa to provide incentives that will support and encour... SOTONYE ANGA One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people... NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutritio... RATAN TATA Without question, many people suffered severely as a result of this strike. JUSTICE THEODORE JONES It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is e... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is sa... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE more than the federal government will spend on education this year, twice as much as the federal gov... BOB GRAHAM He's a big part of our future and we think he has a chance to make an impact on our team as early as... DOUG MACLEAN Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imp... DIONNE WARWICK Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastruc... NORMAN BORLAUG Pray as you want, be holier than angel Michael, prophesy till eternity, it will be of no benefit unl... SUNDAY ADELAJA The rivalry between those two is on a different scale to the one New Zealand have with South Africa,... JUSTIN MARSHALL Brainstorming sounds like a great idea, but it doesn’t work. Dozens of studies have demonstrated t... ERIC WEINER The children, even when they're not participating as soldiers, are moved on or forced from their com... CAROL BELLAMY When a child is severely abused it forever is entrapped in its body as a child...the body matures, b... CRISTABEL MICHAELS In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent ... MELINDA GATES It's not just the food crisis that is claiming lives in Kenya; the knock-on impact of the crisis ris... GEZAHEGN KEBEDE Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to s... JACK KEANE Right now, our city and county are experiencing an overweight and obesity epidemic. We must expand a... AMY SMITH Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jam... DAMIAN MARLEY Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing no... GARY SHTEYNGART We have not really addressed this as a council in the past, ... This incident has brought it forward... ANN CROWLEY With as many as 50 percent of children with autistic disorder experiencing regular GI problems, we r... MICHAEL JOHNSON This will have an impact on rates, but mostly in that region... unless it gets really big. DON GRIFFIN Historically, very few children have thought of entrepreneurship as a career choice. We are hoping t... CRAIG ARMSTRONG Historically, very few children have thought of entrepreneurship as a career choice. We are hoping t... CRAIG ARMSTRONG We are bigger in number than as many as 131 independent nations, why should we remain deprived of in... AMANULLAH KHAN As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who ha... TIMOTHY MURPHY The movement of $1 or $2 we've seen so far is going to have a fairly modest effect on gasoline price... BRUCE BELL This is far more serious, organized, committed, than many of us realized. MICHAEL WARE This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has b... JACK HORN If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people... HELEN CLARK I think 3.0 will have a serious impact on the world of CRM. ARNE HUSE We will show that Africa is not as distant or as different as many people think. KWEVI QUAYE It was real close to being perfect. The fact that we don't have as many prospects tells you that man... TRENT JEWETT Recent accounting-related legislation is having a significant impact at a time when the pool of qual... DAVID L. DUNKEL Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity. ANDREW TAN No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Mor... CONRAD BLACK I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with ... BILL HARDING The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countri... MARGARET CHAN Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death. CASSANDRA CLARE This is as good a collection of players as I can remember. Most of these players will have a major i... DAN OWENS The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I thi... ROBERT MCCHESNEY This is the first time that serious possibilities for dealing with a real but low-probability future... DAVID MORRISON In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as seriou... SIRI HUSTVEDT Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. Th... SUZY KASSEM I probably could have sold twice as many if I was twice as ambitious. GARRY LARSON On a scale of diseases, mumps is not what we would consider one of the more serious. DOUG SCHULTZ What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today. NOVAK DJOKOVIC However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was work... VINCENT VAN GOGH As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy. ACTION BRONSON Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two unde... JAMES BALDWIN I think South Carolina has done a more than adequate job of addressing this. Diamond also has been v... MIKE SMITH I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a... GEORGE WEAH Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That chi... AASIF MANDVI This started in my family room and has grown to a mantra across the nation. There is nothing more po... DONNA DEES-THOMASES I'm one of those guys who knows when something serious is going on. And this is a lot more serious t... RAY RHODES It's not anything serious. But it makes more sense to miss a couple of days now than have it drag on... BRIAN LEETCH As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many ... TERRENCE HOWARD Now we will be able to focus more of our attention on our side impact test program and our rear impa... ADRIAN LUND Right now our nation is focused on academic excellence. We believe that unless children are well adj... RANDY FISHER The prospects for the Asia-Pacific region are particularly hopeful. Within Asia, rapidly developing ... YEO CHEOW TONG Demand has been affected, but not very significantly, mainly due to the approach of the New Year. I ... CUI LIN I think people need to be more aware that this is a global issue. It's not just in Africa or Asia. HIMANI PANDYA This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip RICHARD BURTON
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