When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.