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We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan. Shaukat Aziz

World Blankets Housing Repair Ship Appealed Whole Pakistan Need

A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands. Simon Kuznets

Technology Country Increasingly Defined Adjustment Rise Diverse Economic Economic Growth Supply Advancing Long-Term Demands Goods Institutional Ideological May Capacity Population Growing Based Growth

I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I. Simon Kuznets

War World Father Parents Before States Born Russia Join Came Left Who United United States World War World War I Jewish

Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology. Simon Kuznets

Technology Science Progress Innovations Additional Further Distinctive Economic Economic Growth Advance Mass Closely Modern Substance Which Turn Much Connected Growth Technological Application Basis

With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method. Simon Kuznets

World Economics Field Increasing Honors Distinctive Memorial Only Variety Individual Scholar Scholarly Nobel Implicitly Conceived Also Within Method Prize Fields Special Award Specialization

Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Education Health People Care Living Able More Invest Prosper Instrumental Make Health Care Insurance Get Send Being Payments Standards Businesses Helping Helps Credit Receive Raising Save

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Maritime Sector Indonesia Governance Fish Improves Double Production Transport Large-Scale

The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Food Quality Problem Demanding High Stay Structural More Price Demand Checked Countries Quantity Coming Middle Cannot Income Growth Here

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Women Equality Prosperity Goals Ending Achieve Girl Poverty Our We Cannot Shared Know Without Women And Girls Cannot Creating Twin

When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Life Women Men Stronger Country Building Both Economic Economic Life Economies Equal Women And Men Contribute Help Societies Basis

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Integrity World Money Financial Year Group Difficult Every Reliable Vanishes Trillion About Dirty Developing Economies Come Global Around Nonprofit According Estimate Amount Numbers

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

You People Problem India See Layer Stuck Countries Well Because Inequality Becomes Still Doing While Poor Who Million

Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Good Business Problem Big Own Rebuild Good Intentions Everyone Way Those Indonesia Because Doing Governance Came Very Intentions Help

I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Finance Class Confidence Woman Will Power Become Enough Earning Spending Driven Countries Economy Also She Domestic Whether Which Asian Asian Countries Really Many Income Growth

Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Inflation Emerging Facing Counter Countries Policy Because Fiscal Issue Been Expanding Shock Same Many Monetary Monetary Policy

Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Work Finance Man Woman Management Remember Job First Everybody Everybody Else Else Meeting Minister Had Knew Indonesia Became Prove Male Than Person Management Team Any Hold Room Them Capable Then Youngest Team Ever Harder

If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Country Transformation Rapid Economic Supported Impressive China Growth

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