| 1 | It was donated by a poverty relief program. | |
| 2 | "The cell phone is the best point-of-sale terminal ever," says Mark Pickens, a microfinance analyst with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor. | |
| 3 | It included billions of dollars in cuts to schools, healthcare institutions, higher education and programs for the poor. | |
| 4 | The first is that all of us has to work politically to ensure that poverty and the alleviation of poverty is central on the global agenda. | |
| 5 | Over time their access to markets will grow. We cannot simply ask these countries to rely on volatile capital markets to fund their fight against poverty. |