We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

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.

People are optimistic about the future.

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.