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

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

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

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development