It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
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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 little.
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The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.
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If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank is to fight poverty with passion.' I had it put up there because I wanted something that unites us as an institution.
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The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.
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You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.
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We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
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So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
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Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of the problems of fundamentalism and instability.
