Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

Jacqueline Novogratz

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• I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

  

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• I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Question
  • Poverty
  • Ironic