Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

I see the underlying economy as being very healthy.

A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.