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

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

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

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

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.

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.