Country Quote by Margaret Thatcher

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ha-Joon Chang

The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

— Bill Gates

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

— Seneca the Younger

While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are…

— Zygmunt Bauman

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

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

“...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

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Whether it is North Korea, Sierra Leone, or Zimbabwe, well show that poor countries are poor for the same reason that Egypt is poor.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,

— Iqbal Quadir