Speeches by Danny Leipziger

Meeting of G8 Labor and Employment Ministers
Dresden, Germany
May 2007

Globalization is good for prosperity. Globalization is a positive sum game in the aggregate for both developed and developing countries, but it produces both winners and losers. More

Migration and Development: What are the Priority Policy Issues?
Migration and Development Conference
Washington DC, USA
May 2007

We are now in the midst of a new, massive wave of emigration that is comparable to other large and epic movements of people registered in human history and that led to the shaping of new nations and new economic realities. More

Women’s Economic Empowerement as Smart Economics:   A Dialogue on Policy Options
Opening Remarks, Berlin, Germany
February 2007

It is important to recognize that economic empowerment is not only a women’s issue, it is a development issue. Investments in roads, energy, water, agricultural inputs and financial services will yield higher economic returns if they are designed to benefit women. More

Towards Better Governance and Less Corruption:  A Battle We Must All Fight
Mouvement des Entreprises de France
Paris, France
December  2006

The Bank has been an energetic advocate of governance reforms for the last decade.  It has attacked the problem from a variety of angles – public expenditure management, sectoral reforms, and national anti-corruption programs. The new strategy builds upon this work and creates significant new space for stepping-up our assistance to countries to strengthen their efforts to root out corruption. More

Hong Kong, China
December 2005

The World Bank supports your efforts in negotiating the Doha Development Agenda (DDA), not only because trade is important for growth, but also because the outcome of these negotiations can play an important role in the fight against poverty. Success will leverage ongoing efforts on increasing aid and debt relief with a view to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. More