Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If China has cheap labour, Africa has cheaper labour. This is why China started buying out poor countries. — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries. — Peter Thomas Bauer Copy Share Image
It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role. — Andrew Mwenda Copy Share Image
“poor countries are poor not because they lack resources, but because they lack effective political institutions.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies'… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Facebook brings the Internet to Africa and poor countries, but they're only giving limited access to their own services and make money… — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“The ‘population problem’ has been seen as something that happens in the Indian countryside or a Nairobi slum. It is cited as… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries.… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
“...poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on… — Leon Louw Copy Share Image
When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“The World Health Organization has twice found that schizophrenia outcomes are much, much better in poor countries like India, Nigeria, and Colombia… — Darby Penney Copy Share Image
A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and… — Philip Agee Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Eventually, however, the fact that many once-poor places like Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore achieved prosperity through freer international trade and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The basic reason why poor countries are poor is that they lack the technological capital that rich countries have, which makes output… — Arthur R. Kroeber Copy Share Image
It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. — Clare Short Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
“As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty.” — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries — Douglas Casey Copy Share Image
