Peter Blair Henry Quotes

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.

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 doing things.

Debt relief without the opening of markets will not relieve third world countries from their poverty.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

All over the globe the U.S. is fighting to protect and develop at least a minority who consume what the U.S. majority can afford.

China is a developing country and we regard subsistence as the fundamental human right.

Countries with higher incomes on average achieve better human development. I do not believe that growth alone will 'cure' poverty. But I do believe that growth is necessary.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and China, which is an enormously positive development for those countries that also creates opportunities for the rest of the world.

What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.

Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

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

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.