Quotes of: Poorest Keyword

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

Helen Fisher

Not all developing countries are the same.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

Marty Meehan

Electorates tend to get the politicians they deserve.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

Thomas Sowell

If ye had as little money as ye have manners, ye would be the poorest man of all your kin.

Scottish

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest person is the one who has no vision. Visionlessness is poverty in disguise.

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and se...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no position to rebel; they just suffer quietly.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Denzel Washington

Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be more straightforward just to make the societies less fragile, which means developing their economies.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

The poorest of women is the one without close girlfriends

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

Jose Mujica

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

Jose Mujica

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

Ramakrishna