#economic development

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

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We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. ↗

— Stephen Harper

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I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development. ↗

— Anna Lindh

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Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington. ↗

— Mike Lowry

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China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process. ↗

— Hu Jintao

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Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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