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On the recordOctober 10, 1995
Today, a child born in Bangkok or Buenos Aires or Johannesburg enjoys the possibility of a vastly better life than his or her forebears could ever have imagined.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

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