Best Poor Countries Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Invisible Hands - Part 2: Castling

“We still don't have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon, indeed in poor countries across the world. But we are starting to understand what it is. Some people call it 'social capital, or maybe 'trust'. Others call it 'the rule of law', or 'institutions'. But these are just labels. The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy world in which it's in most people's interest to take action that directly or indirectly damages everyone else.”

Trust Institutions Incentives Rule Of Law Poor Countries Social Capital Cameroon Poor Country

Book:The Undercover Economist

Source: The Undercover Economist

“What holds back many poor countries is the people who live there, including their governments. A society which cannot develop without external gifts is altogether unlikely to do so with them.”

Development Poor Countries Foreign Aid

Book:Target Africa: Ideological Neocolonialism in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Target Africa: Ideological Neocolonialism in the Twenty-First Century

“Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.”

“Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated "heavily indebted poor country," with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.”

World Looks Littles Country House Ability Poor Economic Sells International Fund Farms Cash Affordable Monetary Indebted Poor Countries Nicaragua World Bank

Author:Tony D'Souza

“Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.”

People Should Country Poor Rooms Population Sections Poor People Poor Countries Despondency

Book:Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001

Source: Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001

“The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.”

Country Poor Rich Events Reflection Misery South Population Shock September September 11 Rich And Poor Thorough Disparity Poor Countries

Author:Omar Bongo

“Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.”

People Years Country Poor Five Planets Average Billions Zero Carbon Making Changes Carbon Dioxide Poor Countries

Author:Bill Gates

“The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.”

“Oppression makes a poor country.”

Country Poor Oppression Poor Countries

Book:Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition

Source: Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition

“We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.”

“Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”

People Country Poor Liberty Rich Libertarian Aids Poor People Rich People Freedom And Liberty Limited Freedom Poor Countries Great Libertarian Rich Countries Foreign Aid

Author:Rand Paul

“Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.”

Want Country Past Used Poor Rich Policy Trade Competitors Free Market Ladders Emerging Free Trade Poor Countries Rich Countries Nationalistic

Book:Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity

Source: Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity

“No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.”

Giving Country Dies Poor Birth Starks Giving Birth Disparity Poor Countries Birth Life

Author:Liya Kebede

“We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.”

Mind Country Political Poor Economic Bears West Colonialism Poor Countries

Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also infrastructure, institutions, and budgets - an unholy brew which can create dangerous security vacuums.”

Country Grows Poor Rich Security Dangerous Events Institutions Climate Change Extremes Intense Weather Budgets Infrastructure Vacuums Rich And Poor Poor Countries Extreme Weather

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.”

World Country Used Poor Results Rich Development Increase Investment Gaps Colonialism Exploitation Rich And Poor Decrease Poor Countries Countries Of The World

Book:Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

Source: Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

“A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor country, Indias democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.”

People Has Beens Country Government Remember Poor Millions Democracy India Despite Poor Countries

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.”

Ifs Years Country Poor Cases Focus Incredibles Spread Intense Zero Poor Countries Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.”

World Want Country Kids School Poor Millions Perspective Cost Built Divorce Around The World Kim Poor Countries Access To Education Getting A Divorce

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a few other countries, and also the great proliferation of conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, particularly as a tremendous burden on the economies of developing or very poor countries.”

“If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.”

Ifs Years Country Grows Poor Half Talking Moral Percent Female Argument Population Arguing Finance Faster Ministers Harness Poor Countries

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.”

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Author:Edward de Bono

“The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.”

Country Poor Rich Highest Lows Economics Rate Profit Ruins Poor Countries

Author:Adam Smith

“Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.”

Country Running Poor Terrible Program Poor Countries Vaccinations

Author:Bill Gates

“The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries. We are a poor country. This is why we must accept the conditions that prevail in international markets. But our trade unions do represent the rights of workers.”

Wells Country Lying Differences Poor Levels Accepting Rights Conditions Trade Unions Workers International Other Countries Poor Countries Trade Unions

Author:Nguyen Minh Triet

“In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.”

“Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.”

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Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your errors.' ... We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people.”

People Should Mind Country Shows Spirit Poor Teach Errors Humble Poor Countries Inquiring Inquiring Minds

Author:Che Guevara

“Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.”

Has Beens Country Poor Aids Developing Corporate Agriculture Feeding Profitable Preventing Poor Countries Foreign Aid

Author:Nicholas von Hoffman

“The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.”

Country Government Causes Poor Crisis Threat Stability Collapse Poor Countries

Author:Lester R. Brown

“In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?”

People Way Needs Wells Stills Country Government Poor Tools Workers Links Crucial Providing Effectiveness Better Ways Vaccines Showing Up Poor Countries Health Services Government Workers

Author:Bill Gates

“The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.”

People Country Eye Poor Millions Television Poor Countries

Author:C.P. Snow

“My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.”

People Giving Country Father Poor Break Inspire Injustice Neighborhood Being Positive Poor Countries Poor Neighborhoods

Author:Ziggy Marley

“Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on poor countries. The world's rich millions can afford environmental extremism; its poor billions can't. Climate change pseudo-science about human causality has been exposed repeatedly. What's less appreciated is that there aren't more natural disasters in need of an explanation.”

“Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.”

Country Courses Poor Quality Mexico Maintaining Education System High Quality Public Education Poor Countries

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.”

People Thinking Country States Poor United United States Support Environment Complicated Sympathetic Poor Countries

Author:Ian Bremmer

“Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.”

World Kind Country Justice Poor Poverty Democracy Violence Plenty Fundamentalism Poor Countries

Author:Robert Fisk

“Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.”

People Knows Country Shows Kids Fun Black Water White Poor Situation Break Rich Comfort Absolutes Wave Locals Pursue Brown Relative Leisure Surf Poor Countries Leisure Time

Author:William Finnegan

“Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.”

Country Kids Father Community Poor Son Complexes Competing Surf Fisherman Hacks Poor Countries Gilded

Author:William Finnegan

“The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put it that way: The pope is simply saying...? Has he ever said that Mao Tse-tung, that Fidel Castro, that Raul Castro, any other communist is not a Christian? Why Donald Trump? 'Cause Trump wants to build a wall?”

Way Want Trying Said Country Christian Causes Church Poor Wall Trump Let Me Catholic Spread Communist Pope Catholic Church Castro Recruit Mao Poor Countries

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.”

Years Littles Persons Made Country Today Energy Poor Study Progress Years Ago Electricity Poor Countries Sub Saharan Africa

Author:Bill Gates

“We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.”

“In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in the village with her husband's family, she really has very little opportunity to make her own decisions. If she comes for a while to work in a factory, she has her own money. In family agriculture, it's never your money. It's whatever somebody decides to give you. For many people this is tremendously valuable, because then they can step up.”

People Ifs Giving Littles Country Opportunity Decision Poor Steps Husband Daughter Valuable Village Factories Agriculture Step Up Poor Countries

Author:Pietra Rivoli

“Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.”

Want Giving Country Poor Rich Giving Up Protection Access Goods Protected Want U Goods And Services Poor Countries Tariffs Rich Countries

Author:Daniel Altman

“There's a transparency revolution sweeping the world. The more you can have transparency of payments, the more you'll be able to follow the money and the more you'll be able to see that payments for mineral rights in poor countries actually go to the people who need it, and don't get put into a kleptocrat's pocket. Transparency is terribly important for us.”

People World Needs Important Country Able Poor Rights Revolution Pockets Payment Transparency Sweeping Minerals Poor Countries

Author:Michael Elliott

“Mothers might say they'd go to the doctor. In poor countries, moms are usually responsible for their kids' health. But breastfeeding and traveling to the clinic take time, and research shows that health care is one of the first tradeoffs women make when they're too busy.”

Firsts Country Shows Might Care Kids Mother Poor Mom Research Doctors Responsible Busy Health Care Take Time Too Busy Clinic Poor Countries Breastfeeding

Author:Melinda Gates

“Colombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for Peace. " It's a plan by which US taxpayers subsidized US agribusiness to send food to poor countries. This, of course, destroyed the domestic agricultural markets of these countries, opening these markets to US agribusiness.”

Country Bigs Courses Sound Poor Nice Plans Opening Producers Destroyed Taxpayers Wheat Colombia Poor Countries Agribusiness

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.”

Two Country Reason Problem Term Poor Rich Planets Huge Habit West Climate Climate Change Incredibles Consumption Iniquity Poor Countries Rich Countries

Author:Bill McKibben

“While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing.”

World Country Individual Differences Poor Rich Growing Huge Globes Catching Poorest Poor Countries Catching Up

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

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