Crisis Quote by David Korten

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as…

— Margaret Thatcher

In the global millennium goals, we're on track to beat and eliminate severe poverty. So there are lots of positive trends. I think the…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased…

— David Korten

It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality at country…

— Antonio Guterres

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.

— Martin Feldstein

We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the…

— Michael Bloomberg

This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more…

— Anna Lindh

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of…

— Peter Blair Henry

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

— Peter Diamandis

Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the…

— Damian Marley

There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course,…

— Noam Chomsky

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its…

— Paul Krugman