People are the common denominator of progress. So, paucis verbis, no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development. At some stages of development - the stage that India and Pakistan have reached, for example - they are central to the strategy of development. But we are coming to realize, I think, that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the s…

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

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China has been long one of the richest, that is, one of the most fertile, best cultivated, most industrious, and most populous countries in the world. It seems…

'A key strategy towards restoring stability is developing targeted approaches to poverty reduction across different sectors coupled with the specific social pr…

'When we leave out people on the grounds of ethnicity we limit our options. As such, we become poorer because we are not making optimum use of our human resour…