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

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

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.

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

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.

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

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