Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. — Bill Gates 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
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
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries.… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic… — Bulent Ecevit Copy Share Image
There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment,… — Vijay Mallya 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
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits… — Barton Gellman 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
It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church spends a lot of time in very poor countries trying to recruit and spread the Gospel. Let me put… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Mothers might say they'd go to the doctor. In poor countries, moms are usually responsible for their kids' health. But breastfeeding and… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and… — Robert Winston 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
ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services… — Arancha Gonzalez 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
Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give… — Daniel Altman 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
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
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
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
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
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo 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'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
