Leader for change

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : A global viewWorld Bank reform is at the top of the international agenda, Clemence Landers, senior policy fellow at the Centre for Global Development, told World Finance.
58% : Banga, who was born in Pune, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, in 1959, is now recognised as one of the world's top business executives, and he began his education at Hyderabad Public School and the St Edward's School in Shimla.
58% : What's more, in addition to finding partners for funding, Banga must also work closely with individual countries to understand the impact of integrating climate and development work, including managing the transition in countries whose economies rely heavily on fossil fuels like coal.
54% : "Many developing countries are dependent on fossil fuels for their public finances," Kharas said.
50% : "In fact, if you look at the continent of Africa, a lot of the tax revenue in Africa comes from energy sources, whether it's oil or gas or coal or other kinds of natural resources, they need to manage a transition, which is not going to be easy.
47% : Homi Kharas, a senior fellow with the Centre for Sustainable Development at Brookings, the non-profit research group, pointed out in the group's podcast, The Current, that Banga in 2014 launched Mastercard's Centre for Inclusive Growth, which advances equitable and sustainable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world, "well before many of these things became fashionable in development circles.
28% : Malpass had been criticised for his approach to climate change, with Al Gore, a previous US vice president, calling him a climate denier after he wouldn't say whether he thought fossil fuels were driving climate change.

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