It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. — Clare Short 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
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. — William J. Clinton 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
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
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
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
Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty.… — Iqbal Quadir 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
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our… — George McGovern 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
“Whether it is North Korea, Sierra Leone, or Zimbabwe, well show that poor countries are poor for the same reason that Egypt… — Daron Acemoğlu 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
Colombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies… — Drew Barrymore 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
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
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
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency… — Nicholas D. Kristof 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
“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“...the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries… — Richard Engel 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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