99 Quotes by Christine Lagarde

People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have an effect elsewhere in the world as well.

It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.

We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

When women do better, economies do better.

All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.