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Writers are writing in every corner of the globe.
Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike. — Minae Mizumura

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries. — Kjell Magne Bondevik

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

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries. — Anthony Lewis

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse. — Lester R. Brown

Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role. — Andrew Mwenda

Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries. — K.P. Yohannan

There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country, Thenoclon said. — Andrew Ashling

Nobody in rich countries wants to face responsibility for the lives of people in poor countries. They just want cheap groceries. — Greg Baxter

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one. — Mother Teresa

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive. — Ha-Joon Chang

In many poor countries, the problem is not so much individual thugs and rapists but an entire culture of sexual predation. — Nicholas D. Kristof

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits. — Gary Bauer

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. — Martin Luther King Jr.

...the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high productivity. — William W. Lewis

All rich countries now employ legions of functionaries whose primary function is to make poor people feel bad about themselves. — David Graeber

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. — William J. Clinton

Most poor people live in the poorest countries. — Bill Gates

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. — Bill Gates

Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries. — Peter Thomas Bauer

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. — Iqbal Quadir

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry? — Alexandra Paul

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress. — Francois Bourguignon

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. — Rand Paul

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision. — Gunnar Myrdal

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. — Bill Gates

Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless. — Adam Davidson

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor. — Ha-Joon Chang

What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan. — Richard Engel

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources. — Iqbal Quadir

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999. — Frances O'Grady

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

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition. — A.A. Gill

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country. — Ron Paul