World Bank Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi…
— Bono
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We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank…
— Dennis Kucinich
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According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.
— Michel Chossudovsky
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Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild…
— John Conyers
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Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International Energy Agency will…
— Steven Guilbeault
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We now know that climate action does not require economic sacrifice. This is fully in line with the World Bank Group's findings. It is up…
— Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.
— Herman E. Daly
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The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something...
— Zach Braff
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I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to…
— James Wolfensohn
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To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.
— Nicholas Stern
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Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is…
— Tony D'Souza
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I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the…
— Bob Geldof
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
— Jose Saramago
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure…
— Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open…
— Robert Zoellick
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When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International…
— Michael Ignatieff
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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
— Susan George
Who Wrote These World Bank Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 World Bank Quotes as follows: