John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

Human progress lags most in societies in which illiteracy is highest, above all in Islamic countries and Africa.

Go ask Virginia— go ask even noble Maryland ... to show you her people, canals, railroads, universities, schools, charities, commerce cities, and cultivated areas.

I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

Education equals economic growth.

When roads are built, children can read, then jobs and prosperity will follow.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

My father, he couldn't read or write.

My mum didn't understand that education was an important thing. She couldn't do my homework with me. I was helping her read stuff. She once brought shaving soap thinking it was whipped cream.

The truth is that Africa is like everywhere else. There are poor areas, there are rich areas, there is a middle class. Some of those areas are bigger in one country than another, and some countries have real problems that they're working through. But there's great people, good people and a small percentage of bad people - just like everywhere else.

I want to show the world that there is more to Africa than poverty, hunger, and disease.

I want to build the India that we all want.

The CSSF and Prosperity Fund are making lives better, both at home and abroad.

Commerce is a core component of pretty much any successful society.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.

We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn.

I think if a youngster leaves school unable to read you're kind of condemning them to a life of poverty and a life of lack of potential.

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

What has made America the wealthiest, most successful country on Earth historically has been our commitment to education.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.