Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms

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

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

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.