Economic development Quotes

Infrastructure development is economic development.

— Kay Ivey

“Change is inevitable but progress is truly optional.”

— Don Allen Holbrook

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

— Ha-Joon Chang

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

— Joe Manchin

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.

— Wendell Pierce

“Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

My definition of economic development is economic growth.

— Mark Noble

Culture changes with economic development.

— Ha-Joon Chang

We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our…

— Barack Obama

“Americans could achieve Jefferson’s democratic freedoms through Hamilton’s economic development strategies and trade policies.”

— Patrick Mendis

We want to help countries ultimately to become self-sustaining. That has to come through economic development.

— Alok Sharma

As we are pursuing economic growth and economic development, we have to make sure it happens with and by and for everyone.…

— Betsy Hodges

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

— John Warren Kindt

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

— Li Keqiang

The one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period [is] contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.

— Ronald Reagan

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

— Yitzhak Rabin

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families'…

— Sachin Tendulkar

We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that…

— Colin Powell

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic…

— Barry Commoner

I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got…

— Bob Riley

While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that…

— Solomon Ortiz

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic…

— Vince Cable

“The ritualistic performances of sacrifice are meant for material economic development; in other words, they are meant to keep the body in…

— Anonymous

Without Russia's contribution, prices would rise even more. Some members of the EU meet 90% of their demands for gas with the…

— Vladimir Putin

As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I reached across the aisle to write an economic development bill that addressed…

— Mike Espy

“As the state spreads it tentacles into every corner of life in the name of regulation, rationalization or economic development, people who…

— Cherian George

Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring…

— Ban Ki-moon

“Military operations alone cannot defeat an insurgency because only economic development and political action can address most sources of disaffection. If military…

— H.R. McMaster

“China is a poor country. The economic development everybody talks about has only benefited a limited part of the population. If this…

— Henning Mankell

Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you…

— David Miliband

You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got…

— Lee Kuan Yew

“CSR is the way in which business consistently creates shared value in society through economic development, good governance, stakeholder responsiveness and environmental…

— Wayne Visser

“In combination, these political and economic forces suggest that globalization, at least of the post-Columbus kind, is simply not inevitable. In this…

— Stephen D. King

“During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, the United States could not lose…

— Bob Woodward

“Some of the key pillars of Nasser's project proved greatly lacking. The public sector evolved into a Soviet-style system of sterile thinking,…

— Tarek Osman

“The built environment is shaped not only by private sector development pratices, but also by the honored and fascinating field of planning.…

— Melissa Everett

“Until the early twentieth century, Australians and Americans would go to Japan and say the Japanese were lazy. Until the mid nineteenth…

— Anonymous

“There has been much talk about the alleged exploitation of the debtor nations by the creditor nations. But if the concept of…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Here is why the wellbeing economy comes at the right time. At the international level there have been some openings, which can…

— Lorenzo Fioramonti

“I didn’t know it yet, but this new priority would mean enormous changes in the way I saw the world and environmentalism.…

— Michael R. Bloomberg