David Klein: Coping with the challenge to reduce poverty Speech by Mr David Klein, Governor of the Bank of Israel, at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting, Dubai, 23 September 2003.
*  *  *  Mr. Chairman, Mr. Köhler, Managing Director of the IMF, Mr. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group Distinguished Governors, Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, The world recognized the need to give priority to the global poverty problem, and expressed a wide consensus on this matter in the Millennium Development Goals.