Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs

There are idiots. Look around.

We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.