"Development is about transforming the lives of people,……" — Joseph Stiglitz
"Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies."
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43 Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz
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Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life…
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the…
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But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others…
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I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the…
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I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.
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I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor…
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International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty…
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The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities,…
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The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there…
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability
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American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.
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I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings…
— Richard Armitage
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is…
— Alain Badiou
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
— Lord Acton
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
— Dave Barry
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
— Bela Bartok
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I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was…
— James Van Der Beek
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
— Ben Bernanke
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
— Annie Besant
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