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Arthur Lewis
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The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change.
Arthur Lewis
Change
Only
Idea
Subsistence
Conventional
Conventions
Level
My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.
Arthur Lewis
Success
Love
Age
Mother
Father
Seven
Seventeen
Sons
Combined
Most
Make
Known
Gentleness
Leaving
Five
Person
Died
Children
Working
Each
Ever
Hardest
Her
Widow
In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.
Arthur Lewis
Given
Lecturer
Contract
Sensational
Which
Converted
Teaching
Usual
Four-Year
Assistant
Appointment
British
Universities
We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.
Arthur Lewis
Prosperity
Statistical
Proof
Countries
Industrial
Trade
Depends
Elaborate
Need
Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.
Arthur Lewis
Country
Savings
Secondly
Adequate
Administrators
Entrepreneurs
Attained
Cadre
Conditions
Domestic
Taxable
Capacity
Acquired
Growth
Two
We cannot give our students all that they expect, whether by way of the quality of their schooling or by way of the jobs that they were hoping to get. Student frustration is a worldwide phenomenon, pushing our societies into adjusting faster than they are used to.
Arthur Lewis
Quality
Frustration
Faster
Worldwide
Our
Way
We Cannot
Adjusting
Jobs
Hoping
Give
Student
Students
Pushing
Schooling
Were
Expect
Than
Get
Cannot
Whether
Used
Societies
Phenomenon
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