mr. wolfersohn? >> i would say -- i just congratulate jim and the formation of this new unit, which strikes me as being a practical, important step forward. i wish them not only the very best of luck, but would hope that they would tackle some of the very difficult cases also in publicity and in the annual meeting speech and things. not only talk about the successes but just how tough it is in so many of the countries because i think a statement of all the successes is useful, but i do think that even more useful is a statement in how prevalent the practice of corruption and inequity still is. and so i would hope that this department can report in two phases. one, what it has done, but also how much is to be done. >> there is a direct correlation between poverty and corruption. and if the world bank's goal is to reduce poverty, it would have to make an equal amount of investment in working towards the reduction of corruption. i think this is especially important because corruption and poverty is affe

mr. wolfersohn? >> i would say -- i just congratulate jim and the formation of this new unit, which strikes me as being a practical, important step forward. i wish them not only the very best of luck, but would hope that they would tackle some of the very difficult cases also in publicity and in the annual meeting speech and things. not only talk about the successes but just how tough it is in so many of the countries because i think a statement of all the successes is useful, but i do think that even more useful is a statement in how prevalent the practice of corruption and inequity still is. and so i would hope that this department can report in two phases. one, what it has done, but also how much is to be done. >> there is a direct correlation between poverty and corruption. and if the world bank's goal is to reduce poverty, it would have to make an equal amount of investment in working towards the reduction of corruption. i think this is especially important because corruption and poverty is affe