Sellapan Ramanathan Quotes

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.

My final aim is to bring Iran, within twenty years, to the same level of civilization and progress as will be enjoyed by the most highly developed countries. During the last ten years the degree of our backwardness has been halved, but it is this remaining backwardness which will be the most difficult to combat.

The growing collaboration between Punjab and Chinese companies is a source of extension in economic cooperation between Pakistan and China.

Thriving economies on both sides of the border is a win-win for Arizona and Mexico, but that will only come by working together and demonstrating mutual respect.

President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.

It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business.

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

These vast lands [Africa, South America, Asia]... need only assistance from us to be civilized.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

Overall, for 99 years, the planet grew more peaceful and prosperous under Britain’s eye.

Companies like yours have got to do business with Japan [because] that country must be economically sound.

China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.

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

We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.