Sanjaya Baru Quotes

The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.

The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

We see China becoming an unstoppable force. It's a huge threat and a huge opportunity.

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

If you want your country to be competitive in the 21st century economy, a big financial sector is fundamentally bad news.

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years” than gross domestic product.

None of today’s leading indicators existed a century ago. They were invented to measure the economies of the industrial nation-states of the mid-20th Century… The 21st Century, however, is proving more difficult to measure.

To raise the value of labour throughout the world, we need only to raise the value of our own.

This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that.

If we really care about impacting countries around the world and their economic futures, then what we need to do is empower women.

It is inconceivable that the rise of Asia could happen without the rise of the Indian subcontinent.

In the 21st century, we face new and more intense global competition, spanning the ambitious and industrious economies from Latin America to Asia. To meet the challenge, Britain must rediscover and reward the lost virtue of hard work - a tried and tested route to individual success, national prosperity, and a fairer society.

I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.

My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.