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

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The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

— Muhammad Yunus