“If you want peace, you've got to deal with people; you don't just deal with objects. And whether they take it as a responsibility or not, the success or failure in Kosovo is going to be the success or failure of building, first, economic hope, and then trying to heal the damage that's been done.” PeopleTryingDoneResponsibilityEconomicBuildingHealSuccess Or Failure Author:James Wolfensohn
“First of all, the people left, and they're now coming back. What we have to do is try and help them regain their lives, and the cause of the need for the immediate money is to establish some system of government. You must remember that Kosovo was never self-standing, and so we have to create that government structure, and that's, in fact, what Bernard Kushner is doing on behalf of the secretary-general.” PeopleTryingHelpingRemember Author:James Wolfensohn
“Kosovo is an agricultural economy particularly. It also has a couple of good power stations that exported power, and the big cooperative which they had there in the mining field is no longer functioning. So there is no immediate employment available for people in the industrial sector. All that needs to be going. But you will remember that it is part of Yugoslavia, and much of its trade and its dependence was on Serbia and Montenegro.” PeopleRememberEconomyCoupleTradeMining Author:James Wolfensohn
“What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.” PeopleNeedsGivingMomentsNightGivenCan DoPovertyMillionsBedHundredAreasIncreaseEightHungryCrucialPoorestTotalityPreventionEnding Poverty Author:James Wolfensohn
“Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.” PeopleProblemTodayPovertyConflictEnding Poverty Author:James Wolfensohn
“As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.” PeopleLooksLittlesPlayAreasFlowVariousFundamentalism Author:James Wolfensohn
“We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.” PeopleWorldTwoTodayThreeHalfDollarsPopulationBillionsLiving On Author:James Wolfensohn
