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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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 respect the demonstrators' right to protest, but who wins by shutting down discussion of some of the world's most pressing problems?
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Unless a solution is found, we may be facing the financial collapse of the PA within two weeks.
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We are looking to put together a package which will ensure the financial pressure is relieved for the coming period.
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We are also looking economically at an 8 trillion dollar economy, in the developing world growing seven to eight times in the next 50 years and the rich world 2 1/2 times. These are dramatic shifts.
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It certainly is a surprise, and as you might imagine, we were just about to try and conclude our arrangements for a $3 billion package,
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Our focus is on poverty, which is an issue that affects everybody, but there's little doubt that other events of interest will make their way into different discussions,
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almost acting as though there has been no withdrawal, delaying making difficult decisions and preferring to take difficult matters back into slow-moving subcommittees.
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almost acting as though there has been no withdrawal.
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Now is the moment four you to decide,
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I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it.