Iqbal Quadir Quotes

Iqbal Quadir — Bangladeshi Businessman born on August 13, 1958,

Iqbal Z. Quadir is an accomplished entrepreneur and a long-time champion of the critical role of entrepreneurship and innovations in creating prosperity in low-income countries. “In 1993, before others imagined the possibility, and only one percent of Americans were using mobile phones, Quadir saw mobiles as productivity tools to lift up the poorest in the world. He worked tirelessly for over two decades to provide the poor access to mobiles and to find them other means of economic empowerment.” He is also the founder and director emeritus of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding co-editor of Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, a journal published by MIT Press... (wikipedia)

When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.

I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

Iqbal Quadir Quotes

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