" Many people would also agree with Amartya Sen, the
economist-philosopher and Nobel Prize Laureate, that poverty leads to an
intolerable waste of talent. As he puts it, poverty is not just a lack of money; it is
not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being. 10 A
poor girl from Africa will probably go to school for at most a few years even if
she is brilliant, and most likely won’t get the nutrition to be the world-class
athlete she might have been, or the funds to start a business if she has a great
idea. "

― Abhijit V. Banerjee , Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty