Thomas P.M. Barnett Quotes

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

It is fair to say that Africa has become a major force in moving the world towards multi-polarity, an important emerging market that helps promote global economic recovery and integration, and an outstanding representative of diverse civilizations in the world.

A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.

The U.K. wants and needs closer trading partnerships with African nations - and Africa needs much more capital.

Africa needs access to markets.

China's development benefits other countries.

We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.

The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.

I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

We have a growing interest in Africa’s success.

Africa has no time to lose. The global economy is fast leaving our continent behind.

I would say as emphatically as I can that private enterprise—local and foreign—must respond if the Alliance [for Progress] is to succeed .... [it] must respond by building the factories, the marketing and the service companies which are the manifestations of mature, developed economies. If the private sector fails, then our own public aid programs will have little effect.

Africa does not need more exhortations. She needs support in strengthening her structures. She needs concrete resources with which to pursue her course of action.

It is enlightened selfishness to build up the ability of other nations to a higher standard of living. We thus produce wider markets for ourselves as well as the rest of the world

In my International Development Scheme, I propose that the profits of this industrial development should go first to pay the interest and principal of foreign capital invested in it; second to give high wages to labor; and third to improve or extend the machinery of production.

The case for open markets, free trade, private investment and technology has never been stronger in development. Over the decades, this combination has driven down poverty, helped to tackle disease, and created jobs across the globe.

The U.K. should see overseas aid as an investment in the future potential of a market and shouldn't be used as a stick to bash trading partners and strategic allies with.

We applauded and endorsed the One Belt, One Road initiative and we are proud that together with China, we are implementing its flagship mega project - China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

In this country, we value our open, free-market system - including the way it attracts international investment and talent to our country.