Pankaj Mishra Quotes

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.

I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

We have restored order and established domestic tranquility. We have fed the starving, clothed the naked, and ministered to the sick. We have improved the sanitary condition of the island. We have stimulated industry, introduced public education, taken a full and comprehensive enumeration of the inhabitants

China’s rulers wanted row country to get rich, but not at the cost of control.

The government of Macau, of China, has been empirical and pragmatic and has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, a feat unequaled in the history of civilization in any country.

We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well. It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

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.

A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.

The country [India] is doing far better.

China attaches great importance to the utilization of renewable resources, making it one of the important moves to promote economic and social development

China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.

In order to make India prosperous, all sections and regions of the society needed to be prosperous.

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

I invite you all to participate in Make in India.

I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.