Occupation: Economist Birth: November 5, 1954
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the….
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest ….
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development..
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty..
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation.….
My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few..
Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery..
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that la….
Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important. The US co….
The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to und….
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is c….
The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic ….
We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will..
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hove….
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism..
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything..
The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet..
Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfort….
There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us ….
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments... Rightwing pundits bemoan ….
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world..