Over and above what we should already know, there is no simple solution to anything as complex as generational and mass poverty. Of course, economic growth solves poverty but that just moves our complexity of the solution one step higher. But we never know if these things make sense until we go out and try them. There are many things that seem to make sense but don’t quite work out in practice. But poverty is really not having very much of the things that you want.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 16, 2019 14:26 UTC