Canada is one of the planet's most comfortable, and caring, societies. The United Nations Human Development Index cited the country as the… — Time Magazine Copy Share Image
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
“[Farmer] went to dozens of American and Canadian universities and colleges, preaching his O for the P [Preferential Option for the Poor]… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“Some days he walked along the banks of the river that smelled of shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before… — Bono Copy Share Image
It is a set of policies formulated between 15th and 19th streets by the U.S. Treasury, and World Bank. Countries should focus… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
“The Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who was the chief economist of the World Bank at the time, called the food riots… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin… — Kemal Dervis Copy Share Image
We economists, in our classes, teach students that to some degree, price discrimination is actually a good thing; that it allows you… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
“Social science now tells us that if we can take indigent girls between the ages of 10 and 14 and give them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat [sic] and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
If the World Bank does not alter its shareholding structure to reflect the shifts in global distribution of income and economic power,… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image