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
Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.
We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.
In recent days, the Syrians have been shipping killers into Iraq to try to kill Americans -- we don't welcome that,
In the small country of Burkina Faso, if I remember correctly, it costs 1-1/2 times per capita income to pay the license fees to start a business. That's only about US$500 but for a poor person in Burkina who is trying to start a business it's an impossible barrier.
can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.
calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agriculture subsidies that hurt small farmers and the private sector.
But if he turned up somewhere else, I would not be totally surprised, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
Indonesian investors will tell you the same thing, that the biggest discouragement to investing your money here is corruption. This problem is something that needs to be tackled across a whole range of initiatives.
I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.
I hope we can bring it together at this meeting. I am cautiously optimistic,
indicates they will not provide adequate protection for GPS and other critical DOD systems.
I am asking the committee to look for candidates who share our commitment to the Bank Group's mission of poverty reduction, who have extensive experience in developing countries and preferably come from developing countries; and who are dedicated to assuring that the Bank Group is a model of integrity and accountability,
He's not an insignificant figure, ... But we're also not trying to anoint him or anyone else as the future leader of Iraq. ... His status as a political leader is going to have to be decided by Iraqis, not by Americans.
Graeme shares my view that in addition to core professional competencies, integrity, trust, accountability, and respect are the key ingredients which will assure our institutional and individual success and results,