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

~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.

~Arthur Lewis

Topics: Age Children Combined Died Each Ever Father Five Gentleness Hardest Her Known Leaving Love Make Most Mother Person Seven Seventeen Sons Success Widow Working

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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.

~Arthur Lewis

Topics: Children Education Even Four Great Growth Industry Larger Number School Second Second World War Secondary Since Third Third World University War World World War

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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.

~Arthur Lewis

Topics: About Before Born Both Dozen Had January Parents School Teachers Were Who Years I Was Born

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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.

~Arthur Lewis

Topics: Ailment Because Behind Elected Fact Fall Father Grade Had He Home In Fact Me Months Much Returning School Seven Several Shifted Should Some Stay Taught Teach Three Two Weeks Years

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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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Topics: Appointment Assistant British Contract Converted Given Lecturer Sensational Teaching Universities Usual Which

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

~Arthur Lewis

Topics: Countries Depends Elaborate Industrial Need Proof Prosperity Statistical Trade

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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.

~Arthur Lewis

Topics: Because Begins British Century Chile Country Destroys Developed Does Effects Exports Factory First Flood Foster Growth Half Handicraft Imports India Iron Less Manufacturing Models Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Origin Trade

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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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Topics: Acquired Adequate Administrators Attained Capacity Conditions Country Domestic Entrepreneurs Growth Savings Secondly Two

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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.

~Arthur Lewis

Topics: About Affects Also Because Bold Both Easy Follows Laws Less Make May More Our Physical Physical World Predictable Regular Science Simple Social Thinking Understand Ways Which World

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