“We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsCountryGrowthPoorEconomicPolicyTaxesAddEnvironmentalPocketsMore MoneyCarbonSlow DownConsensusEconomic GrowthMinusEnvironmental PolicyCarbon Tax Author:Christy Clark
“We need economic growth in Europe and we need to find a solution for the excessive interest rates that are making it difficult for many countries to get their own debt under control.” NeedsCountryDifficultGrowthInterestEconomicSolutionsEuropeRateDebtEconomic GrowthInterest Rate Author:Martin Schulz
“The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.” LittlesCountryLife IsNationsGrowthWealthQualityMaterialsNeededCrisisFoundationAddFinancialAssumptionConsumptionQuality Of LifePoorestWellbeingDefaultFinancial CrisisMaterial WealthBetter Quality Of Life Book:Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow Source: Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
“This country of ours, this system of ours, the rule of law, the opportunity to get an education and go as far as your hard work and ambition will take you, and we created the biggest engine of economic growth in the world, the American middle class.” WorldCountryHardLawOpportunityGrowthClassEconomicMiddleHard WorkAmbitionMiddle ClassEnginesEconomic GrowthRule Of Law Author:Hillary Clinton
“It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.” CountryAmericaSocialGrowthPovertyEconomyGrowingPolicyHighestDown AndRateExtremesFinanceInequalityFundLatinProgressiveLowestInflationShamefulLatin AmericaHaitiColombiaExtreme PovertySocial PolicyGrowing Economy Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“Well I'm not making predictions. But the point I can - what I can say to you to contribute to your thinking is as somebody who has been out knocking on doors, doing the street corners, speaking to constituents right across the country is that the Government - that people understand that the Government's message of jobs and growth is addressing their concerns and they have a level of - a high level of confidence that Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison are the people who can deliver.” PeopleThinkingWellsHas BeensI CanCountryGovernmentJobsGrowthLevelsDoorsStreetsMessagesConcernCornersPredictionsKnockingHigh LevelConstituentsStreet CornersKnocking On Doors Author:George Brandis
“Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.” WorldWayKindLittlesDifferentCountryStatesFeelingsProblemBigsActorsGivenGrowthDealsEconomicMilitaryIraqTinyBoundariesBordersDifferent KindsTiedSpillsBig ProblemsDisparityNational Borders Author:Brent Scowcroft
“Common, ordinary, everyday Democrats, not leftists, there may be - if the agenda gets implemented and this country starts humming on the domestic side and if jobs come back and if the economy gets up to 3% growth and is sustained and the job market expands accordingly and people's wages go up, it won't matter.” PeopleIfsMayCountryMatterJobsSidesGrowthCommonEconomyOrdinaryDemocratEverydayGet UpAgendasWagesLeftistsHumming Author:Rush Limbaugh
“An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.” ImportantCountryGrowthMountainRiversForestsRangeValleysMountain Ranges Author:Arundhati Roy
“Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.” KnowsWayWarCountryGrowthEconomyKeysWeaponsOther CountriesManufacturingGreat DepressionExporting Author:Arundhati Roy
“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.” YearsChildrenCountryAgePastMotherFallGrowthBornFiveViolenceRiskCrimeDiseasePercentAdultsIncreasePrimariesWagesLiteracySpursDecreaseLikelihoodLater In LifePrimary Education Author:Shakira
“Not only in Canada but in other countries where we have to rely on immigration for our growth, the question of coexistence of values in communities is important. It has to be dealt with.” ImportantCountryValuesGrowthCommunityImmigrationRelyCanadaOther CountriesCoexistence Author:Philippe Couillard
“London had always been different. There is the old saying that Britain is ten years behind America, and the country as a whole is ten years behind London. If you have a Mayor of London working for jobs and growth and strong businesses, that is going to create opportunities for businesses and people in Burnley or Hull and places all over the UK.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentCountryWholeJobsAmericaOpportunityStrongGrowthBehindsTenLondonBritainMayorsOld SayingHull Author:Sadiq Khan
“The Donald Trump trade doctrine is this. America will trade with any country, so long as that deal meets these three criterion: You increase the GDP growth rate, you decrease the trade deficit, and you strengthen the manufacturing base.” LongCountryGrowthTradeRate Author:Peter Navarro
“The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.” CountryGrowthWealthPolicyAmbitionChinese Author:Howard W. French
“A lot has changed in India in the last decade. We can attribute the growth of India's startup ecosystem to the increased penetration of affordable smartphones and data connectivity across the country. Technology is no longer a luxury. People across generation and geographies are making use of mobile technologies. Startups have capitalised on this phenomenon.” PeopleCountryGrowthTechnologyChangedPhenomenonGeographyAffordable Author:Bhavin Turakhia
“What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for global inequality is relative growth rates between poor and rich countries.” DifferentCountrySometimesGrowthPoorRichRateForgottenInequalityRelative Author:Branko Milanovic
“I got elected on a commitment to Canadians that I was going to make growth work for everyone. I was going to focus on the middle class and those working hard to join it. I was going to make sure that the people who felt that the growth in the economy had left them behind would be included. That's similar to the promise that got Trump elected. Now, our approaches to the same problems are somewhat different. But in my conversations with him, we've very much been able to agree that we want to help the citizens of our countries in tangible ways.” PeopleDifferentCountryHelpingProblemGrowthEconomyFocusPromiseCommitmentAgreeMiddle Class Author:Justin Trudeau
“Common sense! It's nothing more than common sense for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our country, the preservation and growth of our economy. And yet Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush - and everybody in the press corps and practically every other Democrat - hears this and the only reaction they have is, "No compassion! No compassion for the less fortunate! No compassion for the victims of the world!"” WorldCountryCultureGrowthCommonCompassionEconomyVictimDemocratCommon SenseNo Compassion Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We are under the stifling regulation and taxes of a predominantly left-wing type of thinking and philosophy. The eight years of Barack Obama have shrouded this country in punitive regulations. We haven't had economic growth higher than one and a half percent for the last eight or nine years, and that was done on purpose. There have been robust times in the past, and there are a lot of people right now that are doing well and are growing. But generally it ought to be much better in the past. There needs to be an economic revival.” PeopleThinkingCountryDonePhilosophyPastPurposeGrowthEconomicTaxesBarackRevivalEconomic Growth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“China's accumulation of reserves is a result of the IMF's mismanagement of the Asian financial crisis a decade or so ago. If countries know they can't rely on the IMF to help them, their best defense is their own reserve cushion. In a time of spreading global recession, too much emphasis on savings in surplus countries like China can impede prospects for global growth.” CountryHelpingGrowthCrisisFinancialRelyFinancial CrisisMismanagement Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“This is what the Democrats are fighting for. They're fighting for you not to have a job and still have health care so you can pursue your entrepreneurial risk of writing, painting, taking pictures. It's just such a pain in the rear end to have to have a job. It's so damn mean of this country to require people to have a job. It stifles people. It stifles creativity and economic growth to require people to have a job, to have health care. What a country. Man, are we horribly rotten mean to people.” PeopleMenWritingMeanCountryCarePainFightingGrowthCreativityRiskEconomicPaintingDemocratHealth CareEconomic GrowthEntrepreneurialTaking Pictures Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Why am I interested in deficits? The only way you balance the budget in this country long-term is through sustained economic growth. And that's what everything we are doing in this administration is aimed at that end goal.” CountryGoalGrowthEconomicBalanceEconomic Growth Author:Mick Mulvaney
“Uganda's budget is 40 percent aid-dependent. Ghana's budget is 50 percent aid-dependent. Even if you cancel the debt, you don't eliminate that aid dependency. This is what I mean by getting to the fundamental root causes of the problem. Government, the state sectors in many African countries need to be slashed so that, you know, you put a greater deal of reliance on the private sector. The private sector is the engine of growth. Africa's economy needs to grow but they're not growing.” MeanCountryProblemGrowthEconomyAidsReliance Author:George W. Bush
“Cuba is a poor country. Most of the Cubans who leave only do so if they can find better economic conditions elsewhere. That's why we need changes. We have to offer incentives to keep people here. We have to create more attractive policies for young people, so that it also makes economic sense for them to stay. We need growth and a better quality of life for everyone.” PeopleCountryGrowthPoorQualityEconomicPolicyAttractiveElsewhereQuality Of LifeCuban Author:Mariela Castro
“An opposition is necessary and desirable for the healthy development of any country. You can scarcely find anyone in opposition, except for the communists, just like in Yeltsin's times. It is regrettable that there is still no constructive, clear and large-scale opposition in Russia. The growth and development of an opposition, as well as the maturing of other democratic institutions, will take more time and experience.” CountryGrowthHealthyDemocraticMatureCommunist Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“One of the things I really worry about is that if you don't see middle class wage growth, if you don't see the economy in certain areas of the country, the middle part of the country, starting to come back in the same way that it's doing especially well, let's say, in California or New York, then people are going to become politically frustrated.” PeopleCountryGrowthWorryEconomyMiddle ClassFrustrated Author:James Vance
“Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.” PeopleIfsRealCountryGovernmentTogetherGrowthResultsEffortExistenceProsperityWorking TogetherInitiativeSubsistenceCountries Working Together Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.” CountryStatesRememberEnergyGrowthRolesEconomyPolicySafetyDebateRegulationUnnecessaryExpandingDoing NothingColoradoLawmakersPublic SafetyEnergy Policy Author:Bob Beauprez
“You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'” PeopleMayCountryEnoughGrowthRichEconomicSticksEnvyStuckEmsRevenueEconomic GrowthRich People Author:Rand Paul
“The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.” MadeCountryGrowthHalfFictionTeamEconomicCostClaimsPaidDollarsProsperityTranslateStimulusFuture Growth Author:Karl Rove