Stephen Kinzer Quotes

When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.

You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

The strength of a nation is its knowledge.

It is vastly cheaper to build schoolhouses than jails.

Build a roof over a capital and you have the best of all universities.

Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.

My professional background consisted of evaluating specific programs the government was sponsoring in education or social services or, when I was in Thailand, rural development.

Roads are essential to any type of agricultural development.

My obsession is to provide food and jobs to people in Tarlac. The province is primarily an agricultural province; food security tops the priority.

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.

India and other developing nations need non-farm sector activity. So what we are doing, we are giving small microbusiness to the rural women, especially the farmers' wives.

We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent.

In analyzing what made the Golden Century of 1870 to 1970 possible, it becomes clear that four physical infrastructure technologies provided the underlying foundation for growth: energy, transportation, health and sanitation, and communication.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

If you can't educate your citizens and you can't keep them healthy, you can't begin to be a society.

Growth in village economies is often ignored. It should not be.

Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs, in health, in economic growth and environmental solutions.

There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.

Africa is on the move; a new Africa is emerging!

We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area, namely, reducing the gap between high-income earners and people, citizens of our country, who are still living on very modest means indeed. But we cannot, of course, adopt the solution used 80 years ago and simply confiscate the riches of some to redistribute among others. We will use completely different means to resolve this problem, namely, we will ensure good economic growth.