Iqbal Quadir Quotes

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

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.

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.

I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

Malthusian famine scenarios have systematically distracted attention from the fact that it is not people’s reproductive habits that are the principal source of most of the misuse or waste of the world’s resources, but the contradictions and motives of capitalist development.

Most of the oil rich exporting countries were not really helped in the long run by their oil resources. Oil wealth distorted the development of the country. Corruption, the concept of something for nothing, the lack of development of a manufacturing or agricultural base, the resources to keep a dictator in power without depending on the people—all were problems.

In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, ... or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible...

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

We just don’t have enough money to be trying to create nations.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.