Peter Maurer Quotes

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

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.

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.

Connecting small and medium-sized businesses to international markets can create work for host country nationals alongside refugees, building economic growth and resilience in host communities.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.

Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

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

One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.

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

We will focus on the Zambian people as both the end and the means of development

The real world is somebody is going to win; somebody is going to lose. There are costs to everything, but if you make the long term investment which is investment in education, public health and infrastructure, then we will have a better world.

Nation’s that don’t invest in the future tend not to do well there.

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

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can improve their lives, that has a positive effect on their communities, on their families, on their countries.

My roots are in Chicago, and ensuring the West Pullman community has the greatest potential to improve long-term health, wellness, economic, and social outcomes is a personal mission.

We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy.

U.K. aid spending in India is that it ensures that we are able to work with our partners to develop their markets, business and enterprise, to boost labour standards and rights and, ultimately, to boost the incomes of the poorest which, in the long term, boosts demand for British goods and services.

In Odisha, we have concentrated on people and their development. We hope to take Odisha to new heights.