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
The message is that there is no safe haven for looted funds or corrupt activities.
Corruption is often at the very root of why governments don't work. It weakens the systems and distorts the markets. In the end, governments and citizens will pay a price, in lower incomes, lower investment and more volatile economic swings. But when governments do work - when they tackle corruption and improve their rule of law - they can raise their national incomes by as much as four times.
We need to do more to address this issue and to hold private corporations accountable for exporting corruption to emerging economies.
We are changing the way we design our projects, so that they address the incentives and opportunities to fight corruption right from the start. Enforcement alone will not cure corruption. How much we do, and how much progress we make, depends on the desire of both governments and civil society to create the right setting for sound, strong, sustainable development.
The problem of corruption is a big drag on the Bangladesh economy,
Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.
indicates they will not provide adequate protection for GPS and other critical DOD systems.
It's not an exaggeration to say that 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty need a result from Hong Kong,
The best indications of where he might be tend to point almost entirely, mostly to that area,
that fought us up until the fall of Baghdad and continues to fight afterwards.
They'll be able to read between the lines,
The costs are large, but it is a battle that we can win and a battle that we must win,
The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.
I hope we can bring it together at this meeting. I am cautiously optimistic,