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China's continued growth and rising household income are creating opportunities for lower-income economies in low-cost manufacturing. Michael Spence

Opportunities Rising Economies Household Continue China Low-Cost Creating Manufacturing Income Growth

Developing economies may not have much control over the headwinds that they face today, but that does not mean that they are powerless. Much can be done not just to sustain moderate growth but also to secure a more prosperous and resilient future. Michael Spence

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. Michael Spence

Time Mother Demanding Strong-Willed Supportive Very Same Same Time

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning. Michael Spence

Education Learning About Individual End Interactions In The End

Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth - because they require eliminating protections for vested interests in the short term for the sake of greater long-term prosperity. Michael Spence

Time Prosperity Increasing Weak More Long-Term Term Economy Greater Because Always Sake Vested Vested Interests Reforms Short Short-Term Interests Require Flexibility Hard Even Growth

Properly targeted public investment can do much to boost economic performance, generating aggregate demand quickly, fueling productivity growth by improving human capital, encouraging technological innovation, and spurring private-sector investment by increasing returns. Michael Spence

Innovation Increasing Boost Properly Economic Generating Investment Performance Demand Returns Encouraging Targeted Quickly Improving Human Public Capital Much Aggregate Productivity Growth Technological

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. Milton Friedman

Government Internet Will Important Big Difficult Think Ways Collect More Most Make Issue Affect The Most Important Which Taxes

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? Milton Friedman

Me You People Political Reward Think Virtue Presidents Pardon Excuse Does American Rewards Clout Communist Choose Appointed Basis

Poverty is unnecessary. Muhammad Yunus

Finance Poverty Unnecessary

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries. Muhammad Yunus

Education World Key Visionaries Would Economic Entrepreneurs Developing Developing World Countries Access Equity Role Situations Full Who Play Credit

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus

Hope System Entirely Self Almost Make Prove Clinics Self-Sufficient Expand Bangladesh Poor Across Fully Medical Sufficient

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. Muhammad Yunus

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that. Muhammad Yunus

What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic. Muhammad Yunus

Good Food Business People Healthy Restaurants Joint Prices Venture Trying Affordable Bangladesh Common Common People Unhealthy Social Create

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail. Muhammad Yunus

Prevail Women Long Power Live Bank Poor

Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world. Muhammad Yunus

Health World Smart Care Made Seen Tough Incubator More Cheap Developing Developing World Developments New Major Instruments Health Care Without Scientific Built Affordable Current Just Poor Requiring Application Technologies

Human beings are much bigger than just making money. Muhammad Yunus

Money Making Making Money Than Human Just Human Beings Bigger Much Beings

Human beings have enormous resilience. Muhammad Yunus

Enormous Human Human Beings Beings Resilience

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots. Muhammad Yunus

Capitalism Human Being World Money Interpretation Our Everything Kind Uncomfortable Because Robots Been Commands Very Human Being Turned

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus

People Money Circumstances Would No Idea Something Given Had Idea Like Involved Get Bangladesh Which Lending Poor Poor People Working Ever

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. Muhammad Yunus

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away. Muhammad Yunus

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.' Muhammad Yunus

Business World Become Philanthropist Kind Touched Never Part Economists Said Go Selfishness Selflessness Different Different Kind Create Business World Expression Based

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you. Muhammad Yunus

You Everybody Say Wants Help Moment

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