If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.