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Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Indonesian
Economist
Born:
Aug 26
,
1962
Countries
Own
People
Women
Work
World
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When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Home
Rebuild
Recover
Disaster
House
Livelihood
Rebuilding
Lives
We won't be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase the frequency and severity of floods, droughts and storms. But we are better equipped today to prepare for them and reduce their impact.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Today
Change
Better
Increase
On The Contrary
Severity
Able
Impact
Droughts
Disasters
Frequency
Reduce
Climate
Equipped
Climate Change
Contrary
May
Stop
Happening
Storms
Them
Prepare
Floods
At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Fight
Corruption
World
Our
Collect
Systems
Recover
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Clients
Governance
Improve
Stolen
Bank
Taxes
Working
World Bank
Assets
Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Education
Health
People
Care
Living
Able
More
Invest
Prosper
Instrumental
Make
Health Care
Insurance
Get
Send
Being
Payments
Standards
Businesses
Helping
Helps
Credit
Receive
Raising
Save
If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Maritime
Sector
Indonesia
Governance
Fish
Improves
Double
Production
Transport
Large-Scale
The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Food
Quality
Problem
Demanding
High
Stay
Structural
More
Price
Demand
Checked
Countries
Quantity
Coming
Middle
Cannot
Income
Growth
Here
We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Women
Equality
Prosperity
Goals
Ending
Achieve
Girl
Poverty
Our
We Cannot
Shared
Know
Without
Women And Girls
Cannot
Creating
Twin
When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Life
Women
Men
Stronger
Country
Building
Both
Economic
Economic Life
Economies
Equal
Women And Men
Contribute
Help
Societies
Basis
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Fluid
Edge
Fickle
Outcome
Perched
Knife
Course
Always
Times
Revolutions
Often
Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Integrity
World
Money
Financial
Year
Group
Difficult
Every
Reliable
Vanishes
Trillion
About
Dirty
Developing
Economies
Come
Global
Around
Nonprofit
According
Estimate
Amount
Numbers
Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Inclusive
Resource
System
More
Allocation
Countries
Indonesia
Like
Particularly
Transform
Decision-Making
Use
Transparent
Many
In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
You
People
Problem
India
See
Layer
Stuck
Countries
Well
Because
Inequality
Becomes
Still
Doing
While
Poor
Who
Million
Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Good
Business
Problem
Big
Own
Rebuild
Good Intentions
Everyone
Way
Those
Indonesia
Because
Doing
Governance
Came
Very
Intentions
Help
I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Experience
Sometimes
Old
Own
Responding
My Own
Only
Environment
Indonesia
New
Operate
Course
Still
Governments
Situations
The Only Thing
Which
Regime
Clumsy
Transition
Thing
Awkward
The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Finance
Class
Confidence
Woman
Will
Power
Become
Enough
Earning
Spending
Driven
Countries
Economy
Also
She
Domestic
Whether
Which
Asian
Asian Countries
Really
Many
Income
Growth
Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Inflation
Emerging
Facing
Counter
Countries
Policy
Because
Fiscal
Issue
Been
Expanding
Shock
Same
Many
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Women
People
Economic Development
Financial
Poverty
Society
Speed
Harnessing
Draw
Out
More
Economic
Economic Activity
Lift
Mainstream
Development
Contributions
Help
Helps
Inclusion
Activity
Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Work
Women
World
Care
Men
Unpaid
Perform
Most
Also
Women Are
Than
Often
While
Far
Far Less
Paid
Less
I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Work
Finance
Man
Woman
Management
Remember
Job
First
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Meeting
Minister
Had
Knew
Indonesia
Became
Prove
Male
Than
Person
Management Team
Any
Hold
Room
Them
Capable
Then
Youngest
Team
Ever
Harder
It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Political
Rarely
Tempted
Wins
Quick
Fix
Get
Goes
Electoral
Cycles
Farthest
Lure
If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Natural
Innovation
Opportunities
Energy
Enormous
Saving
Resources
Emerge
Risk
Allowing
New
Disasters
Ideas
Well
Climate
New Ideas
Managing
Land
Natural Resources
Create
China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Country
Transformation
Rapid
Economic
Supported
Impressive
China
Growth
Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Ghost
Financing
Towns
Occasion
Causing
Which
Conversion
Urban
Land
Waste
In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Work
Property
Business
Women
Example
Own
Married
Husbands
Laws
Disadvantage
Countries
For Example
Obtain
Permission
Still
Register
Requiring
Many
Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Women
Agriculture
Drive
Holding
Prohibit
Sector
Jobs
Russian
Federation
Trucks
Industries
Often
Cannot
Certain
Regulations
New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Enormous
Meeting
High
Must
Leaders
New
Obstacles
Also
Times
Expect
Expectations
Manage
Them
Setbacks
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