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.

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

Let the dataset change your mindset

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

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

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

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