Pankaj Mishra Quotes

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.

Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draw all, even the most barbarian of nations into civilization.

Civic rationality and modern capitalism triumphed in the medieval northern European cities – but not in Chinese, Indian or Muslim cities

For the first time since the 15th century, China is becoming a major economic power.

The key to economic development is less in government aid, but in having a climate that will attract private capital….Free market development is the key to economic prosperity in the world.

The Chinese and the Americans are great peoples. The Americans are optimistic, full of enterprising drive, down to earth, and innovative. In just over 200 years, they have turned the United States into the most developed country in the world, and made phenomenal achievements in economic development and science and technology.

China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.

Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

Africa needs access to markets.

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.