Joseph Stiglitz Quotes About Focus

Quotes about: Focus

• International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Education, Focus, Relief

• Twenty per cent of American children grow up in poverty, and that means they get inadequate nutrition, inadequate health care, and because we have a very local education system, they get inadequate access to education. With those as a starting base, you perpetuate inequality. That's why, here in New York, Mayor de Blasio has made a big deal of trying to focus on preschool education, because by five years old, there are already huge differences. We've finally begun to recognize it.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• It is a set of policies formulated between 15th and 19th streets by the U.S. Treasury, and World Bank. Countries should focus on stabilization, liberalization, privatization.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Focus, World

• Temporary nationalization of the banks that are in very bad shape would mean basically that the government is the temporary owner. I always believe that the government should focus on its comparative advantages, and banking is not one of them. It should, therefore, if it nationalizes banks, sell them back to the private sector.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Believe, Mean, Government

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

• Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Rights, Focus, Development

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Capital market liberalization includes freeing up deposit and lending rates, opening up the market to foreign banks, and removing restrictions on capital account transactions and bank lending. The focus is on deregulation, not on finding the right regulatory structure.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Opening Up, Focus, Deregulation

  Source: www.progressive.org

• In the midst of the East Asian crisis, there were choices. One choice would have been to encourage countries to implement a bankruptcy law that could have threatened the interests of the lenders. Workers' rights should be a central focus of development. But nowhere did issues of workers' rights, including the right to participate in the decisions which would affect their lives in so many ways, get raised.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Choices, Focus

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