Nawaz Sharif Quotes

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

If you're going to do economic reform, you'd better do it in one fell swoop rather than a little bit at a time.

You should be cautious when criticizing the liberalization of economic theory.

In the early 1980s, the government of New Zealand fell into the hands of true believers, globalist believers, and they embraced the theory of inevitability perhaps more completely than anybody else. And it solved in the very short term some of their debt problems, but in the medium- and long-term, it left them in real economic trouble.

We are very supportive of the economic reforms that the Chinese government have talked about.

I don't think any government is going to go back on the reforms process. There is no government that won't attempt to get people to come and manufacture in India.

Beijing is trying to split the baby between simultaneously liberalizing the economy and maintaining economic stability, but those two factors are increasingly mutually exclusive.

Neoliberalism became the leading economic ideology in the U.S. and in the U.K. during Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's mandates. In this way, the leaders of the free world offered a viable solution to the economic crisis at the time: competition, deregulation, outsourcing, to name a few buzz words that have since become common place.

The industrial world enjoys a rare combination of growth and low inflation; the 'Washington consensus,' a model of economic development that emphasizes macroeconomic discipline and open markets, is being adopted by more countries.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative to engage in deep structural reform to spur growth.

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

To me, providing a new economic way forward is of utmost urgency and will be of foremost importance for the new DPP administration if I am elected.

When nations are willing to undertake serious economic reform, we should help them to do it.

We are on the our way to a free market economy. Regardless of the mistakes and omissions, the government has managed to implement a firm and consistent economic policy. Regardless of how incomplete it still is, the transition to free market relations and democracy has become irreversible.

I think you should consider anything that frees up the market, that creates more jobs.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.