My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most…

In the development business doing something for both women and the environment is the equivalent of holding a royal flush in poker.

— Abhijit Banerjee

The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion…

— Thomas Pogge

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own…

— Robert Redford

One of the things my dad and mom worked on throughout their lives was the eradication of poverty.

— Martin Luther King III

“Fortunately, due to a terrible misunderstanding, I soon found myself working as a consultant to the World Bank. I am not exactly sure what…

— J. Maarten Troost

“Professor Joseph Stiglitz, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, and former Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, goes public over the…

— Anonymous

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken…

— Rigoberta Menchu

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything.…

— Mariana Mazzucato

“Development isn't a collection of things but rather a process that yields things. Not knowing this, governments, their development and aid agencies, the World…

— Jane Jacobs

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

— Michel Chossudovsky

“Let the trees be consulted before you take any action every time you breathe in thank a tree let tree roots crack parking lots…

— John Wright

“Marcia Wilson was a good example of Omega’s core strategy for creating a New World Order. It involved placing their people, or moles, in…

— James Morcan

“If all the developed countries would let in just 3% more immigrants, the world’s poor would have $305 billion more to spend, say scientists…

— Rutger Bregman

Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I…

— Lawrence Summers