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- "America's planned contribution to the global AIDS fund is around a sixth of what is ..."
- "As of the late 1980s and early 1990s, a kind of professional consensus arose in ..."
- "Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But ..."
- "Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more ..."
- "Devaluations are never easy. "
- "Development can really work everywhere. But most of sub-Saharan Africa, the Andean region, and Central ..."
- "For many parts of the world, the chasm that has to be crossed to get ..."
- "Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything ..."
- "I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis. "
- "I'm focusing on a world divided between rich and poor, and a world that doesn't ..."
- "If George Bush spent more time and money on mobilising Weapons of Mass Salvation in ..."
- "If the whole world went into recession, all the major central banks could cut interest ..."
- "If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or ..."
- "If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money ..."
- "If you have billions and billions of dollars coming due in a country in a ..."
- "In 1991, a miraculous thing happened, and that's the Soviet Union ended. So there was ..."
- "In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, ..."
- "In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international ..."
- "It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency. "
- "Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform. "
- "My sense is that the IMF does not have a proper modus operandi for the ..."
- "No serious work whatever is under way within the government to link annual budgetary allocations ..."
- "Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark ..."
- "Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want. "
- "Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain. "
- "Russia increasingly lived on short-term borrowing. Now, this was an extraordinary merry-go-round. "
- "Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is ..."
- "The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated ..."
- "The broader issue of the real role of the U.S., the foreign assistance aspect of ..."
- "The essential truth for developing countries is, if you try to live by yourself, you ..."
- "The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood ..."
- "The haphazardness of life and death is absolutely shocking. "
- "The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges ..."
- "The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, ..."
- "The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the ..."
- "The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then ..."
- "The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. ..."
- "The Russian government not only acted corruptly, not only built up a new oligarchy of ..."
- "The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really ..."
- "The U.S. has a sound economy. It also has a cyclical economy. It also has ..."
- "The U.S. is in a bit of a euphoric mood. Euphorias come to an end. "
- "The volatility of international capital is obviously destabilizing markets today. "
- "There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. ..."
- "Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the ..."
- "We give away tens of billions to Brazil, or to one place or another, without ..."
- "We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest ..."
- "We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe ..."
- "We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there ..."
- "We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's ..."
- "We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create ..."
- "When countries open up to trade, they generally benefit, because they can sell more, then ..."
- "When is the last time anybody heard Vice President Dick Cheney even feign a word ..."
- "While the Bush administration is prepared to spend $100 billion to rid Iraq of WMD, ..."
- "White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, ..."
