Economic Development Quotes - Page 4

• The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

  Chuck Hagel

  Rights, Play, Democracy

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• The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.

  Akbar Ganji

  Political, Development, Problem

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

  Vazgen Sargsyan

  War, Blood, Yesterday

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• Today, we have more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come from nearly 120 countries ... Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Men, Effort

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• Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

  Majora Carter

  Justice, Environmental, Development

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.

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• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  Barry Commoner

  Meaningful, Powerful, Environmental Quality

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy

  John Holdren

  Growth, Environmental, Energy

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• Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us

  David Miliband

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

  Chuck Grassley

  Iowa, Airports, Community

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• We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today, my big hope is that they understand. That they understand that the population is quite big enough, that they must be informed that they must have economic development, that they must have social development, and must be integrated into all parts of the world.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Men, Race

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• We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

  Aga Khan IV

  Trying, Together, Looks

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• The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Peace, Guarantees That, Political

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• The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

  Li Keqiang

  Self, Development, Wealth

  "China Plans to Reduce the State’s Role in the Economy" by David Barboza and Chris Buckley, www.nytimes.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I don't like the fact that we're not creating jobs the way we used to create jobs in Pennsylvania. I lament the fact that we're not setting the table for really robust economic development, here in Pennsylvania, where we can do that. I lament the fact that our schools are being hollowed out. We need a fresh start. I think we need to go in a different direction. I think we need a new governor.

  Tom Wolf

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Sep 23, 2014

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• Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

  John Kasich

  Men, Thinking, Law

  Source: time.com

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• I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens.

  Vladimir Putin

  Commitment, Oil, Serious

  Vladimir Putin during a Question-and-Answer Session, www.washingtonpost.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Government, Development, May

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

  Barbara Boxer

  Hurt, Rights, Government

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• We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources. So why not redefine our agenda as the solution to those problems?

  Ted Nordhaus

  Jobs, Dirty, Oil

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Take a look at NAFTA, one of the worst deals ever made by any country having to do with economic development. It's economic un development as far as America is concerned.

  Donald Trump

  Country, America, Looks

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.

  Amartya Sen

  Educational, Asia, Expansion

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have criticized it [Europe], but I repeat: we keep 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros, we are not interested in the collapse of the Eurozone, but I do not rule out the possibility of decisions being made that would consolidate a group of countries equal in economic development and this, in my opinion, will lead to a consolidation of the euro. But there can also be some interim decisions in order to keep the present number of members of the Eurozone unchanged.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Order, Europe

  Source: thesaker.is

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• It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

  John Warren Kindt

  Vegas, Gambling, Development

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• Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization.

  Manning Marable

  Organization, Political, Black

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Cost, Development

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