The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.

Devaluations are never easy.

My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is none. These are just basic problems requiring basic work. Nothing magic about it.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.