Robert Pollin Quotes

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

My main aim is poverty reduction in the state.

Policies that aim to promote the livelihood security of the people - promoting employment, improving the nutritional status of children and women, expanding educational opportunities, and providing affordable healthcare - would be the first charge on the budget of a developmental state.

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.

The economy should serve man, not statistics.

Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

I am confident the SCMP and Hong Kong will continue to grow and prosper, hand in hand, in this 21st century of opportunity.

Britain's generosity in the world has allowed us to help the poorest countries to get on the road to industrialisation through economic development and private sector investment in the world's most difficult frontier markets, where jobs and economic opportunities are desperately needed.

I'm focused on giving Argentinians better opportunities.

Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

Eliminating global poverty will need the talent and potential of all, not just half the population.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.

In a globally interdependent world, a better financial and investment system cannot be achieved on a country-by-country basis. There may be no one-size-fits-all model for economic development, but without global standards and complementary regulations, the long-term outlook for the world economy will remain bleak.

As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self realization we are on the right track. For India can grow, prosper, flourish only if they grow, prosper, flourish. We cannot grow by any esoteric strategies. Our purchasing power, our economic strength, our marketplace all depends on the prosperity of our people.

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

The country that's been most successful at that is Norway. The more typical countries are those in the Middle East where a small group seizes those resources, uses it to buy arms to make sure that they can oppress the remainder, and you get these great inequalities. So Canada is among the better performing of the natural resource economies, but it's still not up to the best performing.

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 economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.