Agents Quote by Peter Thomas Bauer

“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest struggle for…

— 1884 Henry George (Progress and Poverty

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of…

— Niall Ferguson

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as…

— Margaret Thatcher

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

— Ibn Warraq

“Fleecing the Third World has been a reality for decades if not centuries. Mineral-abundant Third World nations, which should be some of the richest…

— James Morcan

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It’s also the case that economic opportunity opened up by…

— Amartya Sen

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa,…

— Tran Duc Luong

How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.

— Betsy Hodges

We have stood up and said continuing growth in the Western world is unjust, inappropriate and potentially destabilising. Having said that, we understand why…

— Tim Jackson

Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to…

— Jo Bonner

Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and…

— Dan Quayle