Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

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.

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.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.

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.