Development Trajectory Quotes

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Africa is on the rise.

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.

There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academically. Fifty years down the road, and we are almost dead last in the ASEAN region.

It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time.