International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWhat you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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What you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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