Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable and more prosperous world, a world in which every person in every country can reach their full potential.

When women do better, economies do better.

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

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.

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

People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.

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