Richard Grenell Quotes

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

Third World nations will recognize [their] debts only so long as they're able to get them rescheduled and have money lent to them.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

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.

Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

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

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

After 43 years and $568 billion in foreign aid to the continent, Africa remains trapped in economic stagnation.

More than one billion people in the world live on a dollar a day or less. Nothing keeps them poor more than barriers and subsidies in wealthy countries, which cost the developing world much more than it gets in aid.

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

The only remedy for Mexico's poverty which has appealed to our politicians has been to contract foreign loans, which have never been paid, and to invite foreign capital to invest in Mexico.

The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.

Working class people and lower income people we have to help more.

The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

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.

American poverty is darkened by lonliness: poverty in so many poor countries …. Is brightened only by community. Helping people gain other people to lean on—not just offering cheaper health care and food stamps, tax cuts and charter schools—seems essential to making the American dream work …

That's where all the foreign aid (which might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries) went as well. The U.S. government still squanders about $20 billion a year this way, and European governments spend proportionally even more; it's all gone straight down a giant rat hole.

I love Europe! France is wonderful. It should be. We've subsidised it for 40 years.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.