Poor countries Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot…

— Gunnar Myrdal

Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile…

— Henry David Thoreau

While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are…

— Zygmunt Bauman

The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy…

— Gilbert F. White

“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis of the…

— Tom McDonough

“The countries of northern Europe have been richer than those of the south for several centuries. The north industrialised earlier than the south and…

— Tim Marshall

It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

— Mother Teresa

The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

— Lorna Byrne

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa,…

— Tran Duc Luong

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose…

— Adam Davidson

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth