World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.