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" If the world is to avoid a collision with nature - one that humanity surely cannot win - we must act boldly on every front, particularly with respect to carbon pricing and the coherence of our economic and energy policies. "

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" Israel has been doing very well, but there are challenges the country faces, like poverty and social integration of the Orthodox, Arab, Beduin, and Ethiopian population, which will be essential for sustaining strong growth over time. "

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" The OECD deals with the economic aspects of a host of issues, including education, health, and the environment. "

" I have family who are British citizens and who want to be citizens of the world and citizens of the E.U. "

" The concept of national treatment is a core component of investment and trade agreements. It promotes valuable competition on a level playing field. Investment treaties should not turn this idea on its head, giving privileges to foreign companies that are not available to domestic companies. "

" We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but it means by that time we need to be pretty much on the way to achieving it. "

" I feel confident that leaders will rise to this challenge with a stronger commitment to tackle climate change and seize the economic opportunities that a post-carbon world has to offer. "

" Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance. "

" We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth. "

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" Governments can and do expropriate investors or discriminate against them. Domestic judicial and administrative systems provide investors with one option for protecting themselves. "

" Transparency and effective tax co-operation must be shared principles applied by all. Until they are, nations will need to protect themselves against loss of revenues to tax havens. "

" We need better measures of people's expectations and levels of satisfaction, of how they spend their time, of their relations with other people... We need to focus on stocks as much as on flows, and we need to broaden the range of assets that we consider important to sustain our well-being. "

" I was an economist out of the National University of Mexico, where you lived the realities of Mexico all the time. "

" You can accuse Europeans of being many things - except fast. "

" High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest. "

" Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies. "

" You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth. "

" We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels. "

" Every country faces its own obstacles to reaching gender equality, and to make a real difference, we must change public policies in tandem with stereotypes, attitudes, and behaviors. "

" Our planet is warming dangerously. "

" Japan's future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term. "

" We never tell countries that they should have a particular number in terms of a tax number, you know, if countries can make do with whatever average tax they have. The question is, do they apply it to everybody? Or do they give sweetheart deals to some companies? "

" Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets. "

" Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable. "

" Labour and land are always politically sensitive. "

" Economic resources are not all that matter in people's lives. "

" There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world. "

" We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable. "

" In the face of sluggish growth, aging societies, and increasing educational attainment of young women, the economic case for gender equality is clear. "

" Governments need to be seriously sceptical about whether new coal provides a good deal for their citizens. "

" Words must be matched by action if change is to become lasting. "