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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. -- Bill Gates
Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer. -- Adam Davidson
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. -- Omar Bongo
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. -- Iqbal Quadir
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries. -- James Fallows
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money. -- Ha-Joon Chang
I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries. -- Leos Carax
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia? -- Hans Rosling
For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved. -- Peter Singer
When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses? -- Edmund Phelps
Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world. -- Ha-Joon Chang
I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas. -- Emma Thompson
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers. -- James Buchan
One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?' -- Noam Chomsky
Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes. -- Van Jones
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless. -- Adam Davidson
Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Rand Paul
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries. -- Hillary Clinton
Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries. -- Peter Thomas Bauer
Development aid takes money from the poor in rich countries and gives it to the rich in poor countries -- Mohammed Saleh
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. -- Chuck Palahniuk
We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones. -- Andreas Schleicher
In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things. -- Rohinton Mistry
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. -- Vladimir Putin
Japan, Germany, South Korea, these are very rich, powerful countries. Saudi Arabia, nothing but money. We Americans protect Saudi Arabia. Why aren't they paying? -- Donald Trump
I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something -- Michelle Hunziker
I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something. -- Michelle Hunziker
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia. -- Eskinder Nega
America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish. -- Robert Reich
And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc. -- Dudley North
The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin. -- Adam Smith
There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich. -- Edward Snowden
While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences -- Rick Yune
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences. -- Rick Yune
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops. -- Ibn Warraq
Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services. -- Daniel Altman
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts. -- Wilbur Smith
Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December . --
There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course, but in the rich countries it's also very noticeable. -- Noam Chomsky
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries. -- Orhan Pamuk
Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives. -- Ivan Illich
Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past. -- Ha-Joon Chang

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