Economist Quote by Amartya Sen

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

— Jim Yong Kim

“A good bank is the one that does good to its community and a bad bank is the one that feeds the avarice of…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of…

— Jim Yong Kim

While the World Bank is an inter-governmental institution, drawing its funds from member governments and run by a board of directors nominated by member…

— Sanjaya Baru

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as…

— Mario Batali

If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank…

— James Wolfensohn

“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

“Six and a half billion people on this planet have no connection to the world of money. They operate in cash-based societies with very…

— Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever…

— John Adams

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

— Herman E. Daly

“I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power

— F. William Engdahl