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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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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It seems to me that there needs to be some better means of ... recognizing the solutions which are in both their interests. This is not a game in which one benefits and the other loses.
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...It is our hope that we will be able to encourage the developed countries to recognize that it is in their interest to bring poverty alleviation in the developing world because we are one world, and unless we get stability and growth in the developing world, we are not going to have a peaceful world,
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I share with my colleagues the feeling of distress from the problems that have arisen on the streets,
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It would surprise me if one could win by getting all the kids out of school or starving the Palestinians. And I don't think anyone in the Quartet believes that to be the policy.
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Now is the moment four you to decide,
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We've been discussing (these points) for 20 weeks and have yet to reach finality.
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One of the assumptions that divides institutions of faith from those based on politics and international agreements is the automatic assumption that you have to teach me spirituality, that you have to give me a moral center, that you must convince me there's more to development than economic mechanisms.
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One need only look at the cement barriers surrounding these buildings to understand the big difference of the past year.
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My ... agenda is only a beginning ? but it is a gateway through which we must step if we are to get back to the road map, and move to a settlement of this bitter and wasteful conflict,
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The government of Israel, with its important security concerns, is loath to relinquish control, almost acting as though there has been no withdrawal.
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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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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.