How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.