Quotes on Economies

Let's work together to make our economies strong and our climate sustainable. It can be done.

If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

Long experience, in the United States and in other advanced economies, has demonstrated that monetary policy is most successful when decisions are rendered independent of influence by elected officials.

I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

I'm interested in the balance between big currents in history - the economies, the ideologies, social structures, and so on - and the decisions that people have to make. At the heart of all these great decisions to go to war, there are human beings who have to say, 'Yes, let's do it,' or 'No, we won't do it.'

Developing economies may not have much control over the headwinds that they face today, but that does not mean that they are powerless. Much can be done not just to sustain moderate growth but also to secure a more prosperous and resilient future.

Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.

Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.