10. Speeches of World Bank Presidents [collection under construction]

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Address to the Board of Governors, September 29, 1969

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 1969-09-29) McNamara, Robert S.

Robert S. McNamara, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the following topics: past progress and future plans for the expansion of the Bank's operations; increased attention for population planning, educational advance, and agricultural expansion; three urgent, interrelated development problems unemployment, urbanization, and industrialization to which the Bank and all other development institutions must direct additional effort; and an approach to the formulation of a strategy for development.
Address to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, United Nations, NY, December 5, 1968

( 1968-12-05) McNamara, Robert S.

These are the prepared remarks of Robert S. McNamara, President of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association (IDA). He declares that our common enterprise is to drive back poverty, to lift living standards and to enhance the dignity of man. The Bank intends to lend twice as much in the next five years as in the previous five. He discusses the Bank’s lending in Asia. He discusses new geographical accents. The Bank and IDA are now ready to finance state-owned development banks; and training of managers and agriculturalists. He discusses putting population policy at the center of future strategy.