The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

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

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

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.