Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

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.

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.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.