The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

The aspiration of society is the flourishing of its members, this report gives evidence on how to achieve societal well?being. It's not by money alone, but also by fairness, honesty, trust and good health.

My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.