Peter Bate Quotations

If Canada wants to promote the use of renewable energy resources, it will try to influence projects while they're still in the pipeline rather than once they are already completed. It's a more effective way of using limited grant resources.

What donors find useful is to provide resources to try to guide the main work of these organizations so they go as far upstream as they can when the projects are being prepared to ensure the projects acknowledge their development priorities.

People might not need a loan, but they need a savings account, and then they can build credit for the first time.

He thinks it's important for Latin America to build and repair infrastructure because the region either doesn't have it or its nowhere near what they have in the United States or Europe.