Quotes About Development

Contrary to various economic theories of imperialism, Africa was not a major outlet for European investment or exports.

the complacency of assured social position dulled the incentives necessary for the arduous task of developing native talents to the fullest.

when the monetary value of output per capita in Nigeria is less than 2 percent of that in the United States-and in Tanzania less than 1 percent°~-that clearly cannot all be due to exchange rates.

France had the intellectual foundations for modern industry without the commercial and financial complements.

Britain was overtaken not only in gross output but also in output per worker. It lost its lead in technological innovation.

Britain's earlier development of strong and widespread labor unions, which were able to restrict the application of new technology, both directly and by appropriating a sufficient share of technology's economic benefits to reduce the incentives for further technological investment.

How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination?

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes almost all the difference.

In 21st century China, seven times more energy is used than is used in Japan to produce products of the same value. In this case, the gigantic differences in efficiency have also meant gigantic differences in the standard of living of millions of human beings.

building and patronizing churches and schools, both of which were outstanding by the standards of the times.

In no society have all regions and all parts of the population developed equally. Fernand Braudel

nineteenth century economic development was the development of continents instead of coast lines.98

enabling Germans to become major producers of steel and with it one of the leading industrial powers of the world.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

If a small child's needs are not met with at least some regularity, there is a tremendous sense of frustration, of powerlessness to get anything that he or she needs. Over time, as the frustration builds up and is repressed again and again, it becomes too painful to face, and a sense of futility develops. If it isn't acknowledged and allowed expression, the frustration will continue to hide under the surface and grow into a feeling of futility.

Each action you take, each choice you make, will grow something in your life and in our world.

He didn't know how to change her.

Take a plain-Jane rock and polish it, and you'll find a gem.

Sometimes you had to wait a little while for the good times to kick in. But when they did, you realized every moment and experience that came before was necessary…necessary to bring you there.

Anthropos. That's a Greek word. It means to become the best human you can be.

So much had happened since then. So many obstacles had been

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

Someone who combines HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills might be called a "front-end developer.

I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it. —Vincent van Gogh artist