Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go… — Alexandra Paul Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
To make a concrete response to the appeal of our brothers and sisters in humanity, we must come to grips with the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has… — Ivan Illich 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
Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand… — Vitit Muntarbhorn Copy Share Image
The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by… — Ross Garnaut 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
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
One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor… — Chris Kyle 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
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are… — Barbara Stocking 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
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