At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 to new ideas.
World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
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 its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.
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 reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.
When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.
The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'
The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
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