Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Until my father brought me into Reliance, I was pretty sure that I wanted to study in a U.S. university: hopefully, a… — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
The World Bank and others have been converted to conditional cash transfers (CCT). These provide poor people with cash on condition they… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
There's a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There's a… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
“I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO),… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Rwanda is an example in terms of the transformation of the rights of women. But if you talk to almost any Africanist… — Swanee Hunt Copy Share Image
When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The World Bank is a shareholder-driven organisation, and as in all such organisations, the majority of shareholders would want a manager of… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
It has been proven through studies by the World Bank and others that companies participating in international trade are more competitive. — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics… — Swanee Hunt Copy Share Image
“Neoliberal economics, the logic of which is tending today to win out throughout the world thanks to international bodies like the World… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Wealth does not trickle down to the poor. Oxfam knows this, the IMF knows this, the World Bank knows this. Poor people… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Serious empirical investigation (largely thanks to one Lant Pritchet, then a World Bank economist) shows no evidence that raising the general level… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The processes of corporate power do not work in isolation. The economic and legal mechanisms that allow the privatization of the commonwealth,… — George Draffan Copy Share Image
It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
“the coalition of Latin American and African governments making the case for climate debt actually stresses difference, zeroing in on the cruel… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The World Bank has its own term for the phenomenon: they call it "technocratic insulation." So if you read World Bank studies,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
