Your organizations are already doing a good deal of charity work in a number of different areas. Mr. President, multilateral, bilateral and international organizations can do much to stimulate growth and poverty reduction and help create the kind of enabling environment to attract private capital. Governments can do much to throw open their doors to public scrutiny. To reform their public administrations. To create independent auditor generals and to invest in their people.
Civil society can do much to use voice to combat corruption and to monitor transparency.
But the role of the private sector is crucial. Mr. President, we need to create a private sector peace corps . Let me conclude by quoting the very first sentence of your handbook. For more than 90 years you have proved your ability to keep the profession relevant. I am confident that in pioneering civic responsibility, in agreeing on international standards for auditing and accounting practices and in taking the first steps towards creating compliance mechanisms for ethical standards, you could enjoy 90 more.