Robert Zoellick

Public Servant

1953-07-25

Books by Robert Zoellick

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Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.
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One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
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Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas.
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It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.
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It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.
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Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'
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