I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.