Dramatic Quote by Jeffrey Sachs

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

— Jeffrey Sachs

“...while the IMF certainly failed the people of Asia, it did not fail Wall Street - far from it. The hot money may have…

— Naomi Klein

There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academically. Fifty years down the…

— Lucio Tan

The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.

— Joshua Oppenheimer

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

— Kenzaburo Oe

Indonesian people have to regain power, regain control over their own country. And that will never come without a struggle.

— Andre Vltchek

Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.

— Rainbow Rowell

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not…

— Amartya Sen

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East…

— Jairam Ramesh

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war…

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets…

— Antonio Tabucchi

Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came…

— Sri Mulyani Indrawati