James Wolfensohn
James Wolfensohn
James David Wolfensohn, KBE, AOis an Australian-American lawyer, investment banker and economist who served as the ninth president of the World Bank Group...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 December 1933
CountryAustralia
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In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.
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What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.
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We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
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The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror.
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The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.
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We regret that there were those whose sole purpose was destruction, which coloured the currents outside these buildings.
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We have authorized the release of funds from existing projects, and we are preparing emergency assistance for those countries that will require additional financing,
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The Quartet itself must continue, but the role of a disenfranchised leader of that Quartet does not seem to me to be a particularly attractive thing to spend your life doing. And so I am considering (leaving) -- but not yet decided.
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Our objectives are one and the same, ... If the protesters took a moment to understand what we do then they might view our cause a little differently.
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In the event there is no resolution ... any support that goes (to Palestinians) will have to find an alternative route.
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If you were in a job where it was unclear what the purpose of that job was and what the backing that you had was and who had the responsibility...you would probably wonder...if that was the thing you wanted to do.
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If you want to blow each other up, I have a nice house in Wyoming, and in New York and in Australia and I will watch with sadness as you do it,
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HIPC is not a solution to poverty. HIPC is one step.
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Good morning. Well, thank you very much. You got up very early.