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Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources.

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

Australia is a resource-rich nation. We have been good at exploiting our minerals base and agricultural sector for exports.

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.