Ivan Illich Quotes

Globalization has benefited middle-income less than either richer or poorer countries.

It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.

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

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building - so there is a new lifestyle.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

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

The idea of the World Bank loaning money to a nation that has a space program and is building nuclear submarines is just ridiculous.

Nobody in America lives at the survival level, Most people in the world would love to live the way poor Americans live.

At the same time as we are closing our borders we are sending mixed signals to countries where we are helping the rich, and the poor will cross the borders to come here.

In the field of economy, for instance, we … members of the developing world follow the currents of globalization, with conditions set by the rich countries, and at a speed dictated without our slightest input.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

Bend everything toward improving the standard of living of the people.

Modernization is found in markets.