Quotes About Development

What if we started economics not with its long-established theories but with humanity's long-term goals, and then sought out the economic thinking that would enable us to achieve them?

by the end of the 1950s, output growth had become the overriding policy objective in industrial countries.

the last decades of the twentieth century, the focus shifted from measuring GNP to today's more familiar GDP, the income generated within a nation's borders.

the idea of ever-growing output fits snugly with the widely used metaphor of progress being a movement forwards and upwards.

We have an economy that needs to grow, whether or not it makes us thrive. We need an economy that makes us thrive, whether or not it grows.

The Wealth of Nations.

worked with Oxfam for over a decade.

The last two centuries of extraordinary economic growth in high-income countries are largely due to the availability of cheap fossil fuels.

three quarters of the world's poorest people now live in middle-income countries. Not because they have moved but because their nations have become better off overall and so have been reclassified by the World Bank as middle-income. Many of those countries, however—including the largest such as China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria—are becoming more unequal, which explains how they can simultaneously be home to most of the world's poorest people.

By definition, a mentor shows you the ropes, offers feedback, and provides strategies for success—all very good stuff.

will definitely correct that in the future.

Let's say you ask your boss if you can travel to an annual industry convention, and she says yes. You end up making some key contacts who down the road introduce you to others. That's a compound effect.

she was seven. The Yorks' emphasis on a light education was shortsighted. The

I hope I'm always learning something.

When you know better, it's easier to do better" George Chryst

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

The whole sweet tea thing had to be genetic. Or an acquired taste she hadn't developed yet.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

The daylight schooled the senses and the night-time developed the wits, stretched the imagination, sharpened fantasy, hammered home the memory and altered the whole scale of values.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times — and this is the worst of all — before we have new ones.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Self, renders it impossible to know Christ, when other loves and interests intervene, and breeds dissatisfaction with all else and makes that very self sad and weak. Christ absolute, lights the whole being with His love, and joy, and beauty, and shines on other loves to their sanctification, and so, the abnegation of self is self's highest development.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.