Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

There is an increase in inequality in the early stages of development.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don't get it. They see poverty, inequality, fairness, as all about income. For the past 12 years, they have relied on tax credits to solve this. But tax credits do not solve poverty: they mask it.

The world is hugely unequal.

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.

The benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in academic literature but also among policymakers globally.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.