Sri Mulyani Indrawati Quotes

Humanitarian help will never solve any problems. It is necessary to help us create some kind of economic infrastructure.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

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

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

Britain's generosity in the world has allowed us to help the poorest countries to get on the road to industrialisation through economic development and private sector investment in the world's most difficult frontier markets, where jobs and economic opportunities are desperately needed.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

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.

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

In the developing countries the United Nations doesn't mean frustration, confrontation or condemnation. It means environmental sanitation, agricultural production, telecommunications, the fight against illiteracy, the great struggle against poverty ignorance and disease.

We will focus on the Zambian people as both the end and the means of development

There's a long list of investments that governments could and should be making. There is strengthening infrastructure, such as transport and communications; there is investment in education; there is investment in families, particularly putting measures in place that free women from having to make the choice between raising a family and work.

Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.

Creating large numbers of decent jobs for young people is critical for achieving overall development objectives, from poverty reduction to better health and education.

The Prosperity Fund has found innovative ways to help developing countries to improve their infrastructure, skills, trade and business environments; introducing to them sustainable models of trade and growth, rather than reliance upon traditional aid.