Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitzis a former President of the World Bank, United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships, and chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth22 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring,
We need to do more to address this issue and to hold private corporations accountable for exporting corruption to emerging economies.
Trade barriers to the developing countries, particularly in the area of agriculture, are really shocking,
We are going from an era where nobody wanted to say no to anything, to an era when people have to be encouraged that if there are serious problems, they bring them forward, and saying no is a good thing.
When it comes back to the test of whether we (the World Bank) are doing our job or not, it's whether we're promoting development, not whether we're promoting democracy.
We're still considering what to do with him. There's no decision yet.
Unless serious concessions are made by all sides ... the Doha round of trade talks will fail and the people who will suffer the most are the world's poor.
What we're looking for and what I think to some extent we're getting is both much stronger commitments from the G-8 countries as to how they will implement their obligations ... and then to make sure that they are not the only contributors here,
We are going to make sure the Iraqi people believe us at the end of the day,
The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared. We will move swiftly to give the bank's board of directors a paper outlining a compensation schedule and a monitoring system -- a process that can be completed within weeks.
The problem of corruption is a big drag on the Bangladesh economy,