Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide. — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong. — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong. — Nicholas Stern 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
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
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 Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair 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
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
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 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
The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The World Bank, anxious that the last vestiges of Zimbabwe's former inclination toward socialism be abandoned, successfully urged the imposition of a… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
During my three years as chief economist of the World Bank, labor market issues were looked at through the lens of neoclassical… — Joseph 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
Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed… — Lawrence Summers 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
Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International… — Steven Guilbeault Copy Share Image
In 88 poor countries for which we have data, in each and every one of the 88, the PPP for food shows… — Thomas Pogge 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
“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
“Let the trees be consulted before you take any action every time you breathe in thank a tree let tree roots crack… — John Wright 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
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
“Development isn't a collection of things but rather a process that yields things. Not knowing this, governments, their development and aid agencies,… — Jane Jacobs 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
“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
“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
“Countless aid organizations and governments are convinced that they know what poor people need, and invest in schools, solar panels, or cattle.… — Rutger Bregman 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
“Professor Joseph Stiglitz, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, and former Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, goes public… — Anonymous 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
Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.' — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
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