Quotes of: World-bank Keyword

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Jim Yong Kim

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Jose Saramago

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

Susan George

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Robert Zoellick

There's a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There's a lot of work that we at the Rockefeller Foundation are doing and funding towards that end, and increasingly, the U.S. government is g...

Judith Rodin

I feel great identification with the developing world.

Bianca Jagger

In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded ...

Lloyd Dorfman

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of th...

Jim Yong Kim

Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

Denise Van Outen

Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135 million between 1981 and 2004 - in other words, more than half a billion people were lifted out of poverty. The number of poor peopl...

Wang Shaoguang

I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'

Tommy Lasorda

When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.

Peer Steinbruck

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Babe Ruth

Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

Gail Porter

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

Yogi Berra

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how wil...

David Pogue

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

Leon Day

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

Bill Terry

I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.

Jerry Lee Lewis

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

Rollie Fingers

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

Hugh Jackman