Hans Rosling Quotes

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

A literate, skilled workforce is essential for low-income countries to attract investment and fill jobs with local rather than imported labour.

Africa's young population could be a huge economic asset if inequality were addressed.

I'm focused on giving Argentinians better opportunities.

Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.

Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Africa will thrive.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

We need a force that recognizes that only through development and liberty, through education and health care, through better priorities and wiser investments, can we achieve the stability we seek.

We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position the country to compete for new market opportunities.

China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.

I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.