If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.