Society

Crime itself can increase inequality. A doubling in crime increases the Gini coefficient by 3% to 4%. When crime increases twofold the share of the rich tercile drops by 1.3%, and the share of the population in the poorest tercile increases.

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In the case of Brazil, one of the most important things is the huge ethnic and cultural mixture which makes us a country with dynamism, vibrancy, and the ability to understand the psychology of other nations.

Brazilian Diplomat & Foreign Minister under Lula's Presidency

The way the police treat black people is like we're nothing.

The police never talk to us, they ignore us, they don't think we're human in this area.

All conflicts are different with their particular history and reasons. I think that inequality within societies and between regions has become a key cause for conflict, exacerbated by rapid information dissemination, as people are now more aware of inequalities.

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The World Bank states that growth in agricultural sectors is twice as effective at reducing poverty than other sectors.

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You've got around 2.6 billion people in the world who survive on less than $2 per day, 75% of them are rural and agriculture is their primary economic activity. Most are, however, mired in a form of subsistence farming that barely allows them to scrape-by.

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity....

Irish Playwright & Critic; Won Nobel Prize in Literature 1925

We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that....

UN Humanitarian Coordinator; led Iraq sanctions criticism in 1998

What is obvious is that the first reason people use drugs is that they're there. You can't use drugs unless they're there, and they're cheap for your pocket or for the fruits of your stealing! For that reason, we need to get a deeper understanding of the fundamental question of why drugs are available on our streets.

Pioneer of addiction medicine and alcohol dependence research; founded modern addiction psychiatry

There's a very strong relationship between depravation and drug use in many western cultures. It's not the sole reason- you do get the rich and mega-privileged using drugs… You can't go shouting from the rooftops that it's all about depravation… a lot of it is… but there are other social factors, personal factors, genetic factors and economic factors – all mixed into the pot.

Pioneer of addiction medicine and alcohol dependence research; founded modern addiction psychiatry

People underestimate their personal probability of encountering negative …it is not so much that individuals believe that negative events will not happen, but rather that these events are relatively unlikely to happen to them.

Former Premier of New Brunswick & Canadian diplomat and businessman

Poverty is a result of history first of all. Mankind was always 'poor' according to our development standards. Growth has been very high in the last two centuries, but only in the west for a while, and now

French Economist, Advisor to Mitterrand & Founder of EBRD

Chinese global trade went down 20% and Chinese exports collapsed by 25%. This had an immediate effect whereby factories along the coast, in the last quarter of 2008 alone, fired between 20-30 million migrant workers.

Founder of Gavekal Research & Investment Strategist

The net result would certainly be worth the effort as now, more than ever, stakeholders in a fragile global economy from central banks to individual consumers need to know that what they are seeing is, in fact, the truth... the whole truth... and nothing but the truth.

Corruption can be seen as denigration of the basic right of people to dignity. It is also a threat to human security and human rights.

Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime