Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
JOSEPH STIGLITZInternational lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
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When you don’t have equality of opportunity because you don’t have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
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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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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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