If the World Bank does not alter its shareholding structure to reflect the shifts in global distribution of income and economic power, its role may get marginalised as regional institutions fill the vacuum.
Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees.
Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.
Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes.
The extremist agenda of the Obama administration is forcing unwarranted higher energy costs upon Americans and further threatening an already sluggish economic recovery.
A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
Economic recovery begins with our small businesses.
But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.
A stable and affordable home is fundamental to economic security.
Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
There are many challenges our country has - our economic security, our national security.
Unless you have economic security, then you can't have general security.
Our long-term economic plan is all about creating jobs and the economic security that comes with that.
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.