"In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs."

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Source : "In defence of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank" by Joseph Stiglitz, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2015.

Joseph Stiglitz

#Country Quotes #Tariffs Quotes #Developing Countries Quotes

“At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'”
“Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims....and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? I'm almost......drawn to them.”
“There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!”
“He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.”

Source : Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis (1879). “A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D.: Professional and miscellaneous writings”, Boston : Little, Brown,
“What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.”
“But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?”
“The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.”

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