Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy. — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest,… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect. — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique,… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy. — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
