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Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going. (Countries Quotes)
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries. (Countries Quotes)
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers. (Countries Quotes)
Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it’s much more important than free trade. (Countries Quotes)
The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time. (Countries Quotes)
The First World became a popular phrase in about the 1970s and 80s. The World Bank then began categorizing countries in different categories, advanced to the least developed. (Countries Quotes)
Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime. (Countries Quotes)
A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries. (Countries Quotes)
In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country. (Countries Quotes)
Of course, I didn’t become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn’t destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries. (Countries Quotes)
Some remain great cities, but they shouldn’t stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have to do something to draw attention to themselves and make their particular assets visible on the international radar. I’m not talking about developing countries, but about the United States and Europe. (Countries Quotes)
The challenges that the homeless face aren’t dissimilar to those in developing countries (Countries Quotes)
If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food. (Countries Quotes)
The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined. (Countries Quotes)
Political stability was at most a factor in assessing developing countries or Russia. It is now also an issue in Western democracies. (Countries Quotes)
Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there’s no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power. (Countries Quotes)
At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets. (Countries Quotes)
Most developing countries would know Malaysia quite well. Why? It is because we believe in contacts. We offer them some help for training, for example. We call it ‘technical cooperation’. (Countries Quotes)
Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries. (Countries Quotes)
To set us on the right course we need to create more opportunities for trade, particularly in developing countries, and we need to adjust global trade rules to better meet the needs of entrepreneurs in the 21st century, (Countries Quotes)
If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It’s Europe, it’s Australia, it’s the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job. (Countries Quotes)
Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations. (Countries Quotes)
The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death. (Countries Quotes)
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. (Countries Quotes)
Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing... is also a ticking time bomb of frustration... You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation. (Countries Quotes)
I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia. (Countries Quotes)
..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don’t have enough natural resources, we don’t have enough atmosphere. Clearly, something has to change. (Countries Quotes)
I’m very proud that President [George W.] Bush took on AIDS relief. It was the largest single response by any country to a major international health crisis, and there are millions of people who are alive today in Africa and other developing countries because of that program. (Countries Quotes)
Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved. (Countries Quotes)
It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged. (Countries Quotes)