Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

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

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

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.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.