A Challenge of Economic Statecraft

The World Bank Group has sketched six strategic themes to alert us to necessities and opportunities as Fate hurries past. They focus our attention on new development solutions for the poorest countries; states facing breakdown or coming out of conflict; middle income countries, integrating public go...

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Main Author: Zoellick, Robert B.
Format: Speech
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/825901523253989717/A-challenge-of-economic-statecraft-by-Robert-B-Zoellick
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spelling okr-10986-297712021-04-23T14:04:53Z A Challenge of Economic Statecraft Zoellick, Robert B. SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND FINANCIAL CRISES ACCESS TO FINANCE FINANCIAL MARKETS EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES GROWTH POLES FOOD SECURITY FOOD PRICES FOOD AID MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AGRIBUSINESS TRADE LIBERALIZATION AGRICULTURAL TRADE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT GLOBALIZATION EQUITY INVESTMENT DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT The World Bank Group has sketched six strategic themes to alert us to necessities and opportunities as Fate hurries past. They focus our attention on new development solutions for the poorest countries; states facing breakdown or coming out of conflict; middle income countries, integrating public goods, such as climate change, into our work; opportunity in the Arab world; and continually upgrading our knowledge and learning.The challenge is to take practical steps, now, that require work and will, guided by a strategic outlook. What is more fundamental than seizing the opportunity of a changing global landscape? This is the challenge of economic statecraft. 2018-05-02T19:36:05Z 2018-05-02T19:36:05Z 2008-04-02 Speech http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/825901523253989717/A-challenge-of-economic-statecraft-by-Robert-B-Zoellick http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29771 English Delivered at the Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, on April 2, 2008; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Speech Sub-Saharan Africa
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topic SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND
FINANCIAL CRISES
ACCESS TO FINANCE
FINANCIAL MARKETS
EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
GROWTH POLES
FOOD SECURITY
FOOD PRICES
FOOD AID
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
AGRIBUSINESS
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
AGRICULTURAL TRADE
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
TRANSPARENCY
NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
GLOBALIZATION
EQUITY INVESTMENT
DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
spellingShingle SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND
FINANCIAL CRISES
ACCESS TO FINANCE
FINANCIAL MARKETS
EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
GROWTH POLES
FOOD SECURITY
FOOD PRICES
FOOD AID
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
AGRIBUSINESS
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
AGRICULTURAL TRADE
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
TRANSPARENCY
NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
GLOBALIZATION
EQUITY INVESTMENT
DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
Zoellick, Robert B.
A Challenge of Economic Statecraft
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relation Delivered at the Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, on April 2, 2008;
description The World Bank Group has sketched six strategic themes to alert us to necessities and opportunities as Fate hurries past. They focus our attention on new development solutions for the poorest countries; states facing breakdown or coming out of conflict; middle income countries, integrating public goods, such as climate change, into our work; opportunity in the Arab world; and continually upgrading our knowledge and learning.The challenge is to take practical steps, now, that require work and will, guided by a strategic outlook. What is more fundamental than seizing the opportunity of a changing global landscape? This is the challenge of economic statecraft.
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