Best poor & poor-countries Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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

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