18 Quotes by Arthur Lewis

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    My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.

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    I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.

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    It is essential that anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information about what has happened contacts us immediately.

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    We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

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    Trade allegedly does not foster growth because when it begins, a flood of imports of factory origin destroys the handicraft manufacturing of the less developed country: the models for this are the effects of British exports of textiles and of iron in India and Chile in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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    When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

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    Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.

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