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" 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
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" 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. "
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Think
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" 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. "
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World
Alone
End
" When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies. "
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" 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. "
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Because
Shock
Same
" Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries. "
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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Problems
Challenges
" Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements. "
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Endurance
Exercise
Development
" 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
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Growth
Food
" So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress. "
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Woman
Progress
Research
" China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation. "
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Country
China
Transformation
" Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits. "
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Women
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Seeing
" 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. "
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Good
Help
Problem
" I am still an Indonesian citizen. "
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Citizen
I Am
Am
" If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters. "
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Ideas
Energy
Innovation
" People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition. "
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People
Competition
Conflict
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Women
Work
Own
" 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
" Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society. "
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People
Help
Financial
" 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. "
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Age
Protect
Time
" When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods. "
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Disaster
Lives
House
" 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. "
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Believe
Job
Myself
" 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
Farm
Modern
More
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Asia can learn much from Europe. Trade could be made easier in Asia, and the conditions for doing business could be improved by reducing red tape. In this regard, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have done better than the best in Europe. "
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Business
Doing
Red
" 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. "
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Trust
Job
Insecurity
" New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous. "
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New
Expectations
Meeting
" Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work. "
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Care
Far
Men