Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.' — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition,… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share
