Competitors Quote by Ha-Joon Chang

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

— Ha-Joon Chang

Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all…

— Daniel Altman

It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries…

— Robert Zoellick

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

For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going…

— Al Gore

“Eventually, however, the fact that many once-poor places like Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore achieved prosperity through freer international trade and investment became…

— Thomas Sowell

The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where…

— Angus Deaton

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these…

— Jeffrey Sachs

A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting…

— Philip Agee

Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.

— Sharan Burrow

There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules - and…

— Noam Chomsky

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of…

— Caroline Lucas