Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

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.

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

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

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

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.