Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

Our mission is to make the world economy work better.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

Young people in the third world can participate in global security if they also can participate in global prosperity.

Investment in America does not just benefit the United States - it benefits the world.

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.

The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

Emerging markets are hugely important.

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

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

The 'spirit of Davos' has definitely achieved a thing or two.

The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

When nations are willing to undertake serious economic reform, we should help them to do it.

Build a global economy that will lift up—and not drag down—our people and all the people of the world.

An economically successful Africa is not only in the interest of the Africans but also is in the interest of the United States as well.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.