Christine Lagarde
Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too lateCollection: Inspiring
Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.Collection: Needs
Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.Collection: Agreement
If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.Collection: Genies
I think I have a male side about me and you have a female side about you. It's a question of repressing or not.Collection: Thinking
Those negatively affected by globalization, those who are losing their jobs, and losing their skills, people out of training, must be looked after. Governments must establish policies, and governments and companies must actually address that issue, so that those who lose out from globalization can be retrained, recycled, re-established, cared for.Collection: Jobs
I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.Collection: Fields
We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.Collection: Taken
We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.Collection: Innovation
All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.Collection: Responsibility
When you think of a safe and solid arbitration place, you think of Switzerland, Sweden, Canada. Those attributes may be associated with clichés, but I think they resonate with a lot of people and they are a solid base for Canada to co-operate and help others.Collection: Helping Others
Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.Collection: Inspiring
The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.Collection: Country
In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse. They don't move positions as quickly and as erratically as men. Maybe it is a bit less profitably, but I think it would have been less risky.Collection: Moving
Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.Collection: Country
It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.Collection: World
People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.Collection: People
When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have an effect elsewhere in the world as well.Collection: Class
France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .Collection: Agriculture
Canada stands out as making a sensible and positive contribution to the world. I'm saying that maybe because of its inclination toward multilateralism. Support for the environmental protection cause. It's relationship between people and nature.Collection: People
The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.Collection: Needs
Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.Collection: Globalization
There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.Collection: Should
If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.Collection: Running