Augustin Matata Ponyo Quotes

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth's resources for everyone's well-being.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

Development donors ... put a positive spin on awful recipient governments by asserting that while things are bad, they are getting better.

More goods and fewer people" is the slogan I should like to see carried at the head of humanity's march into the future.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

It is essential to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a sustainable one for people and planet. It could even drive greater innovation, not only for short-term benefits and solutions for human wealth but also long-term solutions that benefit all and enable planetary stability.

If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.

We need a better strategy to achieve the national goal of a stable population, healthier and better educated.

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of being able to at least meet their basic needs.

If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

I would rather my constituents were warm and prosperous than cold and impoverished as we are overtaken by emerging markets who understandably put people before polar bears.

International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.

For India's economy to expand as rapidly and yet more sustainably than China's, we need to make our differences into virtues rather than vulnerabilities.

It is through technological innovation and the pursuit of sustainable social, economic, and ecological development that we can chart the country's path to progress and power a greener tomorrow.

Our government is concerned about the future. Everything we do today is not aimed at tomorrow but rather at a future that preserves the living conditions of Brazilians.

Across all economies, the imperative is to take actions that boost potential output, improve inclusiveness, and strengthen resilience.

Stabilizing economies and reducing political and civil strife are means to development and, as such, are part of the approach for promoting healthy populations.

Other countries are developing well-being economies - we should do the same. That is the way to create a society which would stand the test of time - for everyone.

We want an economy that grows health and wellbeing, not debt and carbon emissions. An economy that prepares and protects us from shocks to come, rather than making them worse. An economy that shares resources to meet all our needs, regardless of background. An economy that lets us live.