Country Quote by Iqbal Quadir

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

— Ha-Joon Chang

“...poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but…

— Anonymous

Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments…

— Peter Singer

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

— Bill Gates

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

— Matthew Desmond

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration…

— Helen Clark

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed,…

— Margaret Thatcher

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

— Seneca the Younger

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

— Mother Teresa

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

— Jose Mujica

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

— Daymond John