Carlos Slim Quotes

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

… authors generally neglect that growth has lifted billions of people out of grinding poverty and that others may remain poor because of the developed world’s environmental concerns …

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result.

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

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

We must embark on a bold new program for ... the improvement and growth of undeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery .... For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of these people.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

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

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.

China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty.

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.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

The only real cure for poverty is production.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

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.

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.