Li Keqiang Quotes

Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

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

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.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

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.

If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

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

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

The primary task of developing countries is to develop the economy and eradicate poverty. Without economic growth, there would be no material basis for a better life or better environment for the people. But economic growth must not be achieved at the cost of environment or resources. In the absence of proper resource and environmental protection, there could be no sustainable economic development.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

The economic development of the country must come first. Education and the raising of the standards of the people will follow. Afterwards political development may be possible.

Working together, we will continue to lay the foundation for a new generation of inclusive economic growth, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and ensure that innovative businesses have the support they need to thrive and grow in the years to come.

Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.