But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong..

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality..

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development..

The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or ….

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else..

I think that's one of the reasons for the Sarajevo conference, that Yugoslavia, Serbia, return to the family of nations because enduring peace can on….

It's going to be possible to rebuild the physical aspects of Kosovo. I was there recently, and you get a sense of the destruction of homes. Infrastru….

I was told 20% of the kids in Kosovo didn't know where their parents were. This is a dreadful problem. A woman that I was with, a doctor, had seen he….

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very….

First of all, the people left, and they're now coming back. What we have to do is try and help them regain their lives, and the cause of the need for….

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day..

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of pov….

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue..

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty..

Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to re….

Kosovo is an agricultural economy particularly. It also has a couple of good power stations that exported power, and the big cooperative which they h….

If you want peace, you've got to deal with people; you don't just deal with objects. And whether they take it as a responsibility or not, the success….

Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 t….

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial nee….

In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and ….

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream..