Kenneth Clarke Quotes

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

Third World nations will recognize [their] debts only so long as they're able to get them rescheduled and have money lent to them.

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

Many developing nations have such severe debt and budget problems that the money given by developed nations will never be spent the way it is intended.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to the poorer countries.

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

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them to understand what the issues are.

The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.

As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.

Toward the middle and end of the Fifties, West European countries became somewhat more important as providers of aid to underdeveloped countries. It was partly due to the prodding of the United States that these countries, as they regained economic viability, should shoulder their share of the aid burden.