It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. — Clare Short 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
“poor countries are poor not because they lack resources, but because they lack effective political institutions.” — Anonymous 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
Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries. — Peter Thomas Bauer 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
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
The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live… — Ian Bremmer 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
“Nobody in rich countries wants to face responsibility for the lives of people in poor countries. They just want cheap groceries.” — Greg Baxter Copy Share Image
Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course… — Noam Chomsky 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
There's a transparency revolution sweeping the world. The more you can have transparency of payments, the more you'll be able to follow… — Michael Elliott 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
Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an… — Aung San Suu Kyi 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
I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, everybody focuses on the global warming as an environmental issue, as something outside our daily lives. But actually… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are… — Bill Gates 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
“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 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
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
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
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
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country. — Liya Kebede 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
“There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country,” Thenoclon said.” — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
There are major groups, including the Sierra Club, that support efforts to deprive poor countries of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
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![“I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16a/amartya-sen-2518_amount_i-m-very-skeptical-of-the-amount-of-mone_685148.jpg)
