Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.