Peter Blair Henry's Profile
Brief about Peter Blair Henry: By info that we know Peter Blair Henry was born at 1969-07-30. And also Peter Blair Henry is Jamaican Economist.
Some Peter Blair Henry's quotes. Goto "Peter Blair Henry's quotation" section for more.Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.
Tags: Open, Place, SmallDisciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.
Tags: Eating, Economic, EngageI think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.
Tags: Objection, Perfect, WifeIn Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
Tags: Away, Far, PrettyYou can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.
Tags: Another, Good, MoneyA government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.
Tags: Decision, Government, TimeBetween 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'
Tags: Between, Country, PovertyBusiness is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.
Tags: Business, Poverty, PowerfulEconomic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.
Tags: Create, Grow, GrowthFear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.
Tags: Country, Fear, WithinGood economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.
Tags: Change, Good, StrengthI think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.
Tags: Point, Serious, WhetherI was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual perspective. To sidestep any biases I might have, I use the objective lens of the stock market to discover which policies actually delivered prosperity to emerging markets.
Tags: Actually, Might, UniqueI'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.
Tags: Anger, Decision, ForgiveIt's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.
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