Not all developing countries are the same.
Paul CollierTags: poverty development
Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no position to rebel; they just suffer quietly.
Paul CollierTags: poverty
Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not just an idle metaphor: the risk that a country in the bottom billion falls into civil war in any five-year period is nearly one in six, the same risk facing a player of Russian roulette.
Paul CollierTags: war poverty development
Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be more straightforward just to make the societies less fragile, which means developing their economies.
Paul CollierTags: war poverty development
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid, and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!
W.E.B. Du BoisTags: youth civilization poverty devotion disease
Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.
Paul CollierTags: courage heroism poverty social-change
Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.
BonoSo I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
Sherman AlexieTags: friendship death poverty dark-humor poor
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
Jane AustenTags: wealth poverty attachment
A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character
Thomas JeffersonTags: poverty economy bankrupt
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