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 also wanted to see where we can be useful going forward. On both counts, I think the visit has been a success.
He is a kind of perfectionist, ... I find him extremely valuable. If everybody else is running off to a conclusion, he'll say, 'Wait a minute, have you thought of this?' He's conscientious to the point of being slightly worrywart.
Helping people lift themselves out of poverty is truly a noble mission.
Some of the poorest developing countries lack the resources, for example, to pay farmers adequately to get rid of sick chickens.
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
Some kind of adjustment is necessary, but I think it should be done in a way that it reflects efficient market allocation of energy resources.
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
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.
The message is that there is no safe haven for looted funds or corrupt activities.
The fact that we're moving with one and holding up on five is a very strong message to the Kenyan Government.
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.
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.