Iqbal Quadir Quotes

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• Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.
• Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,
• Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.
• Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.
• China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction…
• Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
• In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them…
• Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our…
• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show…
• Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
• The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
• When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
• The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
• A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

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