The first volume of the results has just been published. And it is a fascinating study because we interviewed 60,000 people in 60 countries to find out what it is like to be poor. They are concerned by the same sort of things that all of us here are concerned about. We want personal security, we want opportunities for our children. Many women have, as it transpires from the results, no better life today, in terms of violence in their domestic environment, notwithstanding the fact that many more women are leaving households, where the rights of women are not properly protected.
Poor people say what they lack is voice.
They look for their own representation. They are more concerned about corruption than middling rich and rich people because, for poor people, corrupt practices, which rob them of 50 cents or a dollar equivalent, could make the difference between eating and not eating. Larger-scale corruption can be unpleasant, but it does not address the question of survival. And they do not have protection of property rights, and they do not have protection of individual rights. And this is not just a statement from some countries, this is the result of 60 countries.