Benefits Quote by Martin Khor

Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

— Richard N. Haass

National governments alone cannot deliver lasting prosperity without a transformation of social and economic development that seeks to minimise risk and seize the opportunity…

— Patricia Espinosa

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

— Vandana Shiva

We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this…

— Vladimir Putin

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue,…

— Muhammad Yunus

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

— Jerry Brown

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

— Ronald Reagan

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

— Anonymous

When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and health, even…

— Mary Robinson

We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement.

— Justin Davidson

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari