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" If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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" Sometimes our definitions fall short. Take, for example, the way we view income and labor. It simply doesn't cover enough of the work that women, and in particular poor women, are doing - especially in their own households and the vast 'informal' economy in which most of the world's poorest people work. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" I think the implications for the rise of China are huge in terms of the political landscape, economic balance, de-velopment thinking, and the environment. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" We won't be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase the frequency and severity of floods, droughts and storms. But we are better equipped today to prepare for them and reduce their impact. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Between 1995 and 2009, Western Europe's entrepreneurs created jobs faster than the U.S. did, and European economies exported more than the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Eastern Europe's productivity increased more rapidly than East Asia's. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Accounting for the unpaid care economy can drive progressive policies such as paid family leave, social security credits for early childcare, tax credits, and quality early childhood education. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Economic success without accountability and social inclusion is not sustainable, and new governments often must face tough choices in order to protect the poor and vulnerable. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

" Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati