Quotes About Development

The data show it's possible to grow the economy without growing pollution.

I've always helped polo to grow.

You cannot be a one-trick pony all the time. You have to grow your game.

Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers.

Gentrification is a problem of poor planning.

ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.

If China has cheap labour, Africa has cheaper labour. This is why China started buying out poor countries.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor.

We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people.

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

Historically, industrial revolutions haven't been kind to poor people. Despite the potential benefits technology can offer, the immediate impact on the lowest-paid members of society has often been negative.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of being able to at least meet their basic needs.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

The BJP works for the people. For development, for women, for the poorest of the poor. That is the ideology. I identify with it.