Do Muoi Quotes

Development has to rise if population is going to increase, Otherwise people will starve and all kinds of other problems.

One problem in Africa has been a small population. And the natural resources were large. So you could be as foolish as possible. But you didn’t die. You just remained there eating mangoes and bananas. Now the population in Africa is growing. So the idea that you can go on with idiotic policies is not sustainable. Because a big population needs answers.

We define poverty as a shortage of material goods, which justifies the production of more and more material goods. It does not occur to us that it might be more realistic to regard it as an aberrant situation in which more material goods are required than can actually be produced, for then the solution would be to create those socio-economic conditions in which less goods rather than more were required.

The politics of growth trump the politics of compassion.

Just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God’s children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and be given a chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger

… growth is necessary to meet the requirements of social and national progress

… 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 …

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

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

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

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

Economic growth will not stop slavery, at least not anytime soon.

The single greatest investment we can make in the economy is to make sure that each person has a good education.

Some policies may promote growth in ways that will increase poverty; others may promote growth in ways that will reduce it. Some growth strategies may be good for the environment; others may not be.

Our infrastructure is just barely adequate to support our current level of economic activity, and our current rate of infrastructure improvement and investment falls vastly short of tomorrow's needs.

Concentrate our strength in agriculture and increase our potential.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer. That man is richest, whose Estate is in a growing condition…

No one has developed a magic formula for how to make countries grow, though economic researchers have identified a number of poisons. Corruption, overweening government intervention, and mountains of debt are contraindicated for countries attempting to develop.

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

Brazil was a capitalist society without capital.