Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Subsidy Quotes:Nigeria is not an oil rich country. We are an oil producing country. — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Copy Share Image
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful. — Samuel Johnson 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
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
We should be a rich country again, and if we do that, we can leave Social Security. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they… — Ha-Joon Chang 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
Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl… — Todd G. Buchholz Copy Share Image
The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education… — Noam Chomsky 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
I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When developing countries go to the WTO and register their protest over things, they should be heard. Their views should be considered… — Mahathir Mohamad 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
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
“The sharp reduction in income inequality that we observe in almost all the rich countries between 1914 and 1945 was due above… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I believe that it is very difficult in the world of today to continue with G-8 only without taking in account the… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva 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
Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll… — Branko Milanovic 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
“The institutional dynamics we have described ultimately determined which countries took advantage of the major opportunities present in the nineteenth century onward… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict… — Robert Kuttner 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
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
“In no country does the average income give the right picture of how people live but in a country with higher inequality… — Ha-Joon Chang 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
It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. — Rand Paul 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
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
Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really… — Jay Leno 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
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
