the best global development quotes of 2012
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Over the past year, we featured the wittiest, most contentious and most insightful sound bites on global development in our publications and posted them on our social media channels. You’ve liked and shared them on Facebook; on that basis, and along with our own favorites, we compiled the 15 most memorable Devex Quotables of 2012.TRANSCRIPT
-The wittiest, most contentious and most insightful sound bites on global development.
The Best global development quotes of 2012
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- Helen Clark, administrator of the United Nations Development Program
[S]o often the big resources to support a country only come when it is plunged into severe crisis, when a stitch in time might have saved nine.
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- Rajiv Shah, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
We need to help companies find profit opportunities abroad, not photo opportunities.”
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- Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization
Money alone does not buy better health. Good policies that promote equity have a better chance. ”
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- Ngozi Okono-Iweala, finance minister of Nigeria
It is not good enough to say you know about poverty. You Have to live it. ”
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- Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS
In the future, regional and global power and national stability will be determined not by who controls arms, but by who controls access to medicines.
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- Atifete Jahjaga, president of Kosovo
There’s no copy-and-paste system in foreign aid. ”
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- Nicolas Vercken,spokesperson of Oxfam
It is shocking that we have the most complex and strict rules on all sorts of products from bananas to ipods, but no global rules for trading tanks, machine guns and bullets. this needs to change.
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- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president of Indonesia
We all must move from a greed economy to a green economy. ”
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- Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the United Nations
Neither peace, development nor human rights can flourish in an atmosphere of corruption.”
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- Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch
Electing Sudan to the U.N. body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women’s shelter.
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- Louise Mushikiwabo, foreign affairs minister of Rwanda
As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal. ”
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- Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist at The New York Times
There is no silver bullet to change the world, but educating girls is like silver buckshot. ”
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- Jan Eliasson, deputy secretary-general of the United Nations
We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.
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- Bill Gates, philanthropist
The point is not for the giver to have a good feeling, but for the people we’re trying to help to have a good feeling.
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Increased food yields do not necessarily mean a decrease in hunger; they just mean more food. Who is going to get access to that food is a difference issue.
- Justin Kilcullen, director of Trocaire
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