Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.