World Economy Quotes - Page 4

• The Vision 2030 is aimed at transforming Kenya from a struggling third-world economy into a second world economy - We do believe that it is a realizable objective; we don't believe that it is utopia. We know that it has been done in some.

  Raila Odinga

  Believe, Struggle, Vision

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• Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

  Ali Babacan

  Turkeys, World, Serious

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• Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.

  John Perry Barlow

  Creating, Humanity, Connections

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• The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.

  John Naisbitt

  Powerful, Player, World

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• World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Attitude, Loss

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.94, Penguin

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• Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

  Peter Mandelson

  World, Growing, Facts

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• It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Real, World, Levels

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.39, Verso

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• I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Historical, Wish, World

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.100, Verso

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• The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Curves, Class, Historical

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• The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  World, Economy, Formal

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.126, Verso

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• It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Ocean, Loss, Personal Transformation

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• In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

  Lester R. Brown

  Poverty, World, May

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• A few months ago people were talking about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Now the only hope is keeping the world economy from total deterioration. And you get a sense that it is all now truly left to Adam Smith's invisible hand--it's beyond any country's ability, and institution's ability to control.

  Jeffrey Garten

  Country, Hands, Talking

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• America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

  Gordon Brown

  America, Promise, World

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• Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

  Fernand Braudel

  Leadership, World, May

  Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world”, p.132, Univ of California Press

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• If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

  Dan Glickman

  Respect, Player, Rights

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• ... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

  Bob Black

  Order, Giving, Police

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• It hit me very early on that something was terribly wrong, that I would see silos full of food and supermarkets full of food, and kids starving. ... In Fair Trade, we see ourselves as this infinitesimal part of the world economy. But somebody's got to come up with an alternative model that says children eating is No. 1.

  Medea Benjamin

  Children, Kids, Alternatives

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• The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, and a messed-up financial system is dragging down the real economy - is essential if we're going to avoid the worst.

  Paul Krugman

  Zero, Real, Understanding

  "Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on the Economy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world, we will lose. If we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped here in this country, then companies won't come here. Those investments are what's going to help to make sure that we continue to lead this world economy not just next year, but 10 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Apples

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• The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

  David Cameron

  Ideas, Generations, World

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• As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Band, World, Growing

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