The poor don’t live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders. Jacqueline Novogratz Read Quote
Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment. Jacqueline Novogratz Read Quote
We see very, very high rates of C-sections, Cesarean sections, in India. Lots of reasons for it, high levels of malnutrition have meant that women have very small pelvic areas often, so if they have larger babies, it’s very hard to deliver. Jacqueline Novogratz Read Quote
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund. Jacqueline Novogratz Read Quote
Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children. Jacqueline Novogratz Read Quote
I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful – and valuable – is each human life. Jacqueline Novogratz Read Quote
I’ve heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male. Jacqueline Novogratz Read Quote
Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us. Jacqueline Novogratz Read Quote
