The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

You see evidence of poverty reduction in Argentina and extreme poverty has fallen to just 12 percent.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.