There are major groups, including the Sierra Club, that support efforts to deprive poor countries of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
“There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country,” Thenoclon said.” — Andrew Ashling 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
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
GDP excludes care work and other unpaid work, most of which falls to women and girls in rich and in poor countries… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
Development aid takes money from the poor in rich countries and gives it to the rich in poor countries. — Mohammed Saleh Copy Share Image
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not… — Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Copy Share Image
A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases… — Bill Gates 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
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
“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
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
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
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed… — Kwame Nkrumah 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
In 88 poor countries for which we have data, in each and every one of the 88, the PPP for food shows… — Thomas Pogge 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
“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
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 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
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
Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive. — Ha-Joon Chang 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
“As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty.” — Daron Acemoğlu 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
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“poor countries are poor not because they lack resources, but because they lack effective political institutions.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role. — Andrew Mwenda Copy Share Image
It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
