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

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• ‟ Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

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• ‟ Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

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• ‟ I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

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• ‟ A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

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• ‟ If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

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

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