By James D. Wolfensohn
As president of the area financial institution, James Wolfensohn controlled operations in virtually one hundred fifty international locations and was once answerable for tens of billions of greenbacks in relief to the world's poorest international locations. in the course of his ten years and visits to greater than a hundred and twenty nations, Wolfensohn tirelessly drew the world's realization to the necessity to supply wish and a greater destiny for the world's terrible. He reworked the area financial institution, made it extra open and obvious, and built-in the perspectives of the negative into improvement making plans. He additionally replaced the face and the nature of an establishment that was once formerly noticeable through many as heartless and smug. by means of describing the problem of improvement by way of humans, and never simply numbers, Wolfensohn positioned the highlight again at the international Bank's actual purpose—fighting international poverty and aiding the world's terrible forge a greater existence. 'Voice for the World's negative' brings jointly crucial and encouraging speeches and writings via James Wolfensohn in the course of his time as global financial institution president. Spanning all ten years of his presidency (1995-2005), the publication offers Wolfensohn's so much stimulating and thought-provoking rules on severe worldwide concerns together with poverty, debt aid, corruption, HIV/AIDS, weather swap, human rights, and globalization. Written in the course of probably the most tumultuous instances in fresh background, Wolfensohn addresses and examines key worldwide occasions and matters, from Bosnia's reconstruction, the Asian monetary drawback, and the increase of the antiglobalization flow to the terrorist assaults of September eleven, 2001, the aftermath of the Iraq struggle, and the outpouring of support for the sufferers of the tsunami of December, 2004. Over a hundred speeches, essays, and letters chart Wolfensohn's pondering on improvement and his emergence as an suggest and voice for the world's negative. This publication should be a useful source for an individual attracted to diplomacy, overseas improvement, the area financial institution, and James Wolfensohn himself.
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Third, I want us to look outwards and forward, not just to internal processes. I believe we all work here because we care about the world: we care about poverty, the environment, social justice, and many other issues which make up the dreams of the institution. These should be our guiding lights. Our organization and internal practice must serve our objectives, not dominate them. Fourth, I expect absolute standards of excellence in our work, and in our renewal of skills. WORKING AS A FAMILY JUNE 1, 1995 Finally, we must have integrity in our word and in our behavior, inside and outside our institution.
What I’m going to do in the first six months, together with Elaine, is to get out in the field and see what we think is the mission of the Bank. I am simultaneously in that first two months going to visit every sector of the Bank, and I will be dealing en passant VOICE FOR THE WORLD’S POOR SELECTED SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF WORLD BANK PRESIDENT JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN, 1995–2005 with such little things as Gaza and the West Bank and Mexico’s banking system and the Argentine banking system, and goodness knows what else which will come up in a random way during that period.
Elaine and I have visited dozens of the projects that the Bank is supporting, and a number of images have stayed with me: • The woman entrepreneur I met in the small town of Katwe, Uganda, converting banana peels into charcoal briquettes and using the proceeds from her sales to improve her community. She had all the pride of the chairwoman of a multinational company as she shared with me her pencilwritten records. • Villagers in the arid province of Gansu, China, to whom a Bank-financed project delivers water through a 50-kilometer system that traverses mountains and valleys.