Poor Countries Quotes - Page 5

• Mothers might say they'd go to the doctor. In poor countries, moms are usually responsible for their kids' health. But breastfeeding and traveling to the clinic take time, and research shows that health care is one of the first tradeoffs women make when they're too busy.

  Melinda Gates

  Mom, Country, Mother

  "If you could have one superpower, what would it be?". Annual Letter of Bill and Melinda Gates, www.gatesnotes.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Colombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for Peace. " It's a plan by which US taxpayers subsidized US agribusiness to send food to poor countries. This, of course, destroyed the domestic agricultural markets of these countries, opening these markets to US agribusiness.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Nice, Sound

  Source: www.madre.org

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• Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Two, Rich Countries

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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