Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty.… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
In 2011, after spending a couple of years working at Google, I decided that I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“The geography hypothesis claims that the great divide between rich and poor countries is created by geographical differences. Many poor countries, such… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Recent evidence confirms that retail prices of essential consumer goods in poor countries are not appreciably lower than in the United States… — Vincent A. Gallagher Copy Share Image
People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a… — Helen Clark 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
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
Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries. — Peter Thomas Bauer Copy Share Image
Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role. — Andrew Mwenda Copy Share Image
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress. — Francois Bourguignon Copy Share Image
Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated… — Angus Deaton 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
“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
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
Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never… — Alexander Guchkov Copy Share Image
My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or… — Nicholas D. Kristof 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
We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it's about happiness.' 'But if you don't have any principles, and if you don't… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per… — Bill Gates 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
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