World Bank

“That world order has gone from a world order that it was a multilateral world order, sort of with rules like the United Nations and the World Trade Organization and the World A health organization, and the world, this is, you know, the world bank, and the worl…”

“Last year we mobilized, Seventy billion almost private capital. Up from say, 40,000,000,002, three years ago.”

“America is the largest single country shareholder. Actually, the European Union is bigger than America, but it doesn't vote as one country on our board. And therefore, yes, America is 17% of the shares. Right. That's their share of the capital they've contribu…”

“And today, when you step back and look at the totality, it's a 120 odd billion dollars that gets Put into the marketplace every year. There's about 25, 30,000 people working across the world on this”

“And so we've committed to connect three hundred million people with the African Development Bank by 2030.”

“We're talking about getting 1.5 billion people access to better primary healthcare by 2030.”

“The rest is it goes into capital and retained earnings with us, which we leverage up through the bond market, which is mostly, I would say about 60%, Private money, as in insurance companies and pension funds and asset managers. But 40% could be central bank's…”

“In fact, interestingly enough, the bullet trains of Japan were financed by the World Bank. Nuclear power plants in France were financed by the World Bank early on.”

“We're financing 2.5 million homes that were impacted by floods in Sindh. They've all been bent on a higher plinth with thicker walls.”

“The World Bank has gone back into nuclear energy after 40 years. And we're starting with refinancing existing, ah, nuclear fleet, whether it's in countries like India or Brazil or Romania or somebody who already have nuclear plants by helping to extend their l…”

“Six hundred million people in Africa don't have electricity today. And I don't mean, ah, inadequate electricity. None. Black. No electricity.”

“We're basically profitable across the institution. The part of the bank that doesn't, we don't need capital injections every year or three years. We don't need money for our administrative expenses every year or three years.”