Developed Country Quotes

• A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

  Gustavo Petro

  Country, Rich Countries, Car

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• Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Country, Mean, Bihar

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Support, Developing Countries

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• And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Support, World

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• Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Responsibility, Long

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• If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

  Jim Rogers

  Country, Birth Rate, Debt

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• The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

  Naoto Kan

  Country, India, Nuclear

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• Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Educational, Glasses

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

  Barbara Amiel

  Running, Country, Benefits

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• It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

  P. Chidambaram

  Country, Kyoto, World

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• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

  Kofi Annan

  Hope, Country, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Safe Environment, Healthy

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• Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Growing Up, Talking

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• In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

  Jonathan Raban

  Country, Nature, Air

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• In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party.

  Hélder Câmara

  Country, Communication, Party

  Hélder Câmara (1971). “Spiral of Violence”, Burns & Oates

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• By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow.

  John Woodward

  Country, Business, Culture

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• A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries.

  Lucy Powell

  Country, Play, Way

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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• I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?

  Isaac Asimov

  Country, Kings, Real

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• Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Commitment, Justice

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• The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Science, Simple

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• Obviously it's easier to grow faster when you are a less developed country than when you are where the U.S. is.

  Chris Hayes

  Country, Easier, Faster

  "The age of illusion". Interview with Jake Blumgart, www.origin.salon.com. June 30, 2012.

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• 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.

  Peter Thiel

  Country, Technology, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.

  Ottmar Edenhofer

  Country, Nature, Oil

  "UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth By Climate Policy' 15 Shares". www.newsbusters.org. November 18, 2010.

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• I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience of some of the developed countries, and also from some of the positive experiences we have of building good transportation systems, like high-speed rail.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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