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.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

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.

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