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Zoellick: Globalization Must Benefit the World’s Poor

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WASHINGTON DC [HIGH-RES]
October 10, 2007 - World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick unveils a strategic direction to advance inclusive and sustainable globalization at Washington DC's National Press Club.

"It is the vision of the World Bank Group to contribute to an inclusive and sustainable globalization – to overcome poverty, enhance growth with care for the environment, and create individual opportunity and hope." -- Zoellick

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WASHINGTON DC [HIGH-RES]
October 10, 2007 - World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick at the National Press Club,  "Globalization offers incredible opportunities.  Yet exclusion, grinding poverty, and environmental damage create dangers.  The ones that suffer most are those who have the least to start with – indigenous peoples, women in developing countries, the rural poor, Africans, and their children."  Mr. Zoellick said.

Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank

WASHINGTON DC [HIGH-RES]
October 10, 2007 - World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick. "It is the purpose of the World Bank Group to assist countries to help themselves by catalyzing the capital and policies through a mix of ideas and experience, development of private market opportunities, and support for good governance and anti-corruption -- spurred by our financial resources."

Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank

WASHINGTON DC [HIGH-RES]
October 10, 2007 - World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick. "It is the purpose of the Bank Group to advance ideas about international projects and agreements on trade, finance, health, poverty, education, and climate change so that they can benefit all, especially the poor seeking new opportunities."

Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank

WASHINGTON DC [HIGH-RES]
October 10, 2007 - World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick. "Inclusive globalization is also a matter of self-interest. Poverty breeds instability, disease and devastation of common resources and the environment."

Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank

WASHINGTON DC [HIGH-RES]
October 10, 2007 - World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said the Bank Group should be expanding the frontiers of thinking about policy and markets and pioneering new possibilities.

Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank

WASHINGTON DC [HIGH-RES]
October 10, 2007 - World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick challenged the world's developed countries to follow the Bank’s lead and increase their support for the world's poorest people, especially in Africa and South and East Asia. "I wanted all donors to know—in concrete terms—that the World Bank Group will ‘put its money where its mouth is’ when it comes time to boosting IDA (the International Development Association) Now we need the G-8 and other developed countries to translate their words from Summit declarations into serious numbers, too."

Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank

WASHINGTON DC [HIGH-RES]
October 10, 2007 - World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick. "Together, we must show that multilateralism can work much more effectively—not just in conference halls and communiqués—but in villages and teeming cities, for those most in need."

Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank





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