Jose Angel Gurria quotes
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“Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.”
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“The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.”
-- Jose Angel GurriaSource : "Society: Governments must tackle record gap between rich and poor, says OECD". José Ángel Gurría's remarks during the launching of a new 2011 OECD report "Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising", www.oecd.org. December 5, 2011.
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“We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter of new technologies or new sources of renewable, safe energy. It is about how we all behave every day of our lives, what we eat, what we drink, what we recycle, re-use, repair, how we produce and how we consume”
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“Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.”
-- Jose Angel Gurria -
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“While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.”
-- Jose Angel Gurria
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.
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Source : Abiola Abrams (2014). “The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love: The 11 Secrets of Feminine Power”, p.25, El Dorado Publishing
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“What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy.”
Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
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