Country Quote by William J. Clinton

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“The basic reason why poor countries are poor is that they lack the technological capital that rich countries have, which makes output per worker…

— Arthur R. Kroeber

“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

The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the…

— Freeman Dyson

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

“As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed,…

— Margaret Thatcher

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,

— Iqbal Quadir

“poor countries are poor not because they lack resources, but because they lack effective political institutions.”

— Anonymous

“...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

“The motives of the troika and Greece's domestic oligarchy are obvious. Debt is creditor power, and unsustainable debt gives creditors exorbitant power.”

— Yanis Varoufakis

“And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus…

— Shane Claiborne