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

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

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.

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.

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

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