Patricia Espinosa Quotes

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.

If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.

Build a global economy that will lift up—and not drag down—our people and all the people of the world.

People and plenty are commonly the begetters the one of the other, if rightly ordered.

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

How do we build an intelligent plan for growth over decades while responding to citizen’s immediate demands for less inequality and more opportunity. We must do both.

There is a clear business case for building the resilience and capacity of local communities, businesses, and institutions because a peaceful, educated, and productive population will stimulate economic growth in the long term.

Other countries are developing well-being economies - we should do the same. That is the way to create a society which would stand the test of time - for everyone.

China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.

Our Vision 2030 remains the blueprint for inclusive growth, social cohesion, and prosperity for all. Under this plan, we will continue to develop skills that can help our country realise its developmental goals and address labour market issues.

We need a collective moment where we commit ourselves to long-term solutions.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

We want an economy that grows health and wellbeing, not debt and carbon emissions. An economy that prepares and protects us from shocks to come, rather than making them worse. An economy that shares resources to meet all our needs, regardless of background. An economy that lets us live.

I don't attach any labels to myself and if I can be of any help to Kerala in terms of thinking about some of the economic issues there, provide my input which can be taken or discarded, I thought that would be a good thing to do.