Poor Countries Quotes

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Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs. — Orhan Pamuk
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources, — Iqbal Quadir
I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped… — Alex Garland
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor… — Wilbur Smith
The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions,… — Nursultan Nazarbayev
I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work… — Ho Chi Minh
When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms.… — Philip Wollen
If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa -… — Nicholas D. Kristof
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. — Bill Gates
People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their… — Pope Benedict XVI
It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. — Clare Short
Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and… — Gunnar Myrdal
Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that… — Jeffrey Sachs
If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of… — Helen Clark
Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure… — Vijay Mallya
But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has… — Bulent Ecevit
Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is… — Tony D'Souza
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has… — John Kufuor

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