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

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the 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.

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

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

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.

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