Quotes by Arthur Lewis - Page 1

The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change.
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Conventional
Subsistence
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We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.
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Depends
Proof
Countries
Elaborate
Industrial
Statistical
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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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Developed
Fast
Slow
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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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Dozen
January
School Teachers
Teachers
Parents
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In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.
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Lecturer
Sensational
Usual
Appointment
Assistant
Contract
Four-Year
Universities
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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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Adequate
Cadre
Capacity
Conditions
Acquired
Attained
Domestic
Entrepreneurs
Secondly
Taxable
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Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.
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Education
War
Four
Growth
Industry
School
Second World War
Third World
University
Education Great Growth
Since
Even
Number
Larger
Second
Third
World War
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Science affects all our ways of thinking about the world: both the physical world, which, if I may make so bold, is easy to understand because it is regular and follows simple laws, and also the social world, which is more baffling and less predictable.
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Predictable
Simple
Affects
Baffling
Bold
Follows
Physical
Physical World
Regular
Ways
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We cannot give our students all that they expect, whether by way of the quality of their schooling or by way of the jobs that they were hoping to get. Student frustration is a worldwide phenomenon, pushing our societies into adjusting faster than they are used to.
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Jobs
Adjusting
Faster
Frustration
Phenomenon
Pushing
Schooling
Student
Expect
Hoping
Societies
We Cannot
Worldwide
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The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.
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Education
Science
Country
Establishment
Esteem
Financial
Financial Support
Large Numbers
Numbers
Opinion
Public Opinion
Related
Training
Also
Any
Approve
General
Public
Eager
Ensuring
Further
Holds
Large
Minds
Scientific
Supplying
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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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Died
Five
Gentleness
Leaving
Seven
Seventeen
Widow
Combined
Sons
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When I was seven, I had to stay home for several weeks because of some ailment, whereupon my father elected to teach me so that I should not fall behind. In fact, he taught me in three months as much as the school taught in two years, so, on returning to school, I was shifted from grade 4 to grade 6.
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Home Me Father
Ailment
Weeks
Elected
Home Father Me
Grade
Returning
Shifted
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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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British
Chile
Developed Country
Effects
Flood
Growth
Imports
Iron
Manufacturing
Models
Nineteenth Century
Trade
Allegedly
Begins
Destroys
Developed
Exports
Factory
Foster
Handicraft
Nineteenth
Origin
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