Attempts Quote by Peter Singer

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,

— Iqbal Quadir

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

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

— Hillary Clinton

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

Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot…

— Gunnar Myrdal

“Paradox...Rich in natural resources but poor in the quality of our human resource”

— Fela Durotoye

Development aid takes money from the poor in rich countries and gives it to the rich in poor countries.

— Mohammed Saleh

While other countries may espouse the liberal utopian dream of a global community, it's usually only to get the richer countries to pay more…

— Richard Grenell

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of…

— Caroline Lucas

Unfettered market American-style capitalism doesn't work. Developing countries can't afford that kind of luxury. They just can't afford it. Period. If there's a mistake,…

— Joseph Stiglitz

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