There are still many things that need to be fixed. Some of the big announcements like Skill India and Make in India will have to show results.

Gita Gopinath

Economist and professor at Harvard Universityon Indian economy

Source: PTI

In our own region, terrorism poses a grave threat to peace, security and development. Tragically, the mother ship of terrorism is a country in India’s neighbourhood.

Narendra Modi

Prime Minister of India

hitting out at Pakistan at the BRICS summit in Goa on October 16, 2016

Source: Reuters

We project global growth at 3.1% this year, with only a modest acceleration to 3.4% next year. Putting it simply: growth has been too low, for too long, and benefiting too few.

Christine Lagarde

Managing Director, IMF

speaking on the slow growth rate, at the 2016 IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings Plenary in Washington, DC

Source: IMF

We really can’t afford to sit on the sidelines and lose out. If we don’t do Trans-Pacific Partnership, China is ready to engage with them.

Fred Philip Hochberg

Chairman & President of the Export-Import Bank of the US

on the need for US to implement the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on a war-footing

Source: CNBC

If all the developed countries close their borders, it’s going to be very difficult and it’s going to be very difficult for those countries as well.

Dr. Jim Yong Kim

President, World Bank
 
sharing his concern about missing the target of eradicating poverty by 2030, due to slower global economic growth

Source: BBC

We won’t negotiate before we’ve had the British government’s farewell letter.

Jean-Claude Juncker

President, European Commission

on British PM Theresa May’s announcement of a March deadline to initiate divorce talks with the European Union

Source: Reuters