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Lewis Thompson Preston

"Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective."

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"Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells."

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