Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.

It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.