Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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

Capture

Influence

Lack

" 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

Environment

Transition

Own

" Do what is best for most people, not just a few. Prevent your elites and growing middle class, those who often benefit most from growth and development, from turning into a special interests group that blocks reforms. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Best

Special

People

" In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Departure

New

Left

" 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

Face

Accountability

Choices

" Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Age

Protect

Time

" 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

Agriculture

Drive

Holding

" 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

Man

Team

Woman

" 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

Short

World

Work

" We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Poverty

Ending

Equality

" Although many people in Aceh are still poor and vulnerable, the province resembles nothing like the place I saw the day after the tsunami hit. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Nothing

Place

People

" Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Trust

Job

Insecurity

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

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Care

Far

Men

" 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

Back

Women

Marriage

" Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Transform

Inclusive

" 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

Quality

Childhood

Education

" Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Changes

Legacy

Now

" 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

Work

Wealth

Together

" 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

World

Alone

End

" China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Country

China

Transformation

" Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Edge

Always

Fickle

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

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

People

Recognition

Money

" 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

Because

Shock

Same

" When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Building

Equal

Help

" When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Priorities

Challenge

Community

" I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I can really work and dedicate myself to the institution for achieving the goal which I believe is a noble one. "

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Believe

Job

Myself

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

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Drivers

Women

Own

" 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

Good

Help

Problem

" 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

Double

Production

Governance

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

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Urban

Land

Waste