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
It would be to the benefit not only of Turkey and Europe but to the entire world, including my country, if the December 12 European Union summit in Copenhagen can succeed in advancing two important goals -- a settlement in Cyprus and an agreement on a date to begin talks on Turkish membership in the EU.
You're not going to find it in a house-to-house search. You're going to find it when people start to talk to you, and we're in the process of finding the people who can talk,
Unless serious concessions are made by all sides ... the Doha round of trade talks will fail and the people who will suffer the most are the world's poor.
I think Indian officials that I talk to aren't satisfied with the seven per cent or so that they're doing, but I must say that is impressive already, and I think they are making every effort to do more.
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,
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.
I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.