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
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 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
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
“..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich… — Mario Molina Copy Share Image
The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted -… — Angus Deaton 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
“...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.… — Orhan Pamuk 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
The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
In Africa, you only have an independent media in only eight African countries, so there is very little transparency. The best gift… — George W. Bush 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
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
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
Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on… — Leon Louw 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
“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
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
There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
It isn't only rich countries that suffer from the effects of tax havens. Developing countries also lose billions of dollars in tax… — Jose Angel Gurria 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
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
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 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
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
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 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
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The quality of the medical care delivered, including the pharmaceutical industry, has improved a lot. I don't think it's crazy for a… — Charlie Munger 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
England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years… Such is the fate of rich… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of… — Peter Singer 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
Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is… — Barbara Stocking 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
