Kishore Mahbubani Quotes

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Rising inequality leads to less sustainable growth.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

There is an increase in inequality in the early stages of development.

Americans have historically been more willing than Europeans to tolerate high inequality levels if accompanied by strong economic growth and a healthy middle class.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

Inequality, he argued, is necessary to generate the savings that growth requires.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be income polarization.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

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

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.