Absence Quote by Óscar Arias

Although fostering a peaceful, prosperous and equitable hemisphere is clearly in the best interest of the United States, Washington has not always supported Central…

— Óscar Arias

Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.

— Óscar Arias

If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is…

— Óscar Arias

Latin America has not achieved the development that it deserves... I'm not optimistic for all of Latin America, not only for Central America.

— Óscar Arias

“If all the developed countries would let in just 3% more immigrants, the world’s poor would have $305 billion more to spend, say scientists…

— Rutger Bregman

In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came…

— James Shikwati

It's not an accident that the U.S. ranks lowest of all major donor countries in the world - that is the share of our…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine…

— James Buchan

Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Military missions are not democratic development aid.

— Guido Westerwelle

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid…

— Paul Farmer

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