White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

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

Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments... Rightwing pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

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

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.