Most companies that are interested in working in the poorest places don’t know how to do it right now, … don’t know how we fit in the broader scheme. This provides a framework where all...

There is no doubt that Malawi needs 100 percent debt cancellation as soon as possible, and I will do everything possible to speed that up.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

Let’s start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new...

You can’t fight the greatest pandemic for years without resources,

If you have billions and billions of dollars coming due in a country in a short period of time, and if a sense of panic develops among your creditors, so that everybody demands the money...

Development can really work everywhere. But most of sub-Saharan Africa, the Andean region, and Central Asia face obstacles.

In 1991, a miraculous thing happened, and that’s the Soviet Union ended. So there was an opportunity to build a very healthy and new world, on the basis of the change that the Russian people...

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America’s government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that...

When is the last time anybody heard Vice President Dick Cheney even feign a word of concern for the world’s poor?

We’ve waited 20 years, until we have 36 million infected in the world, before we’ve started to do something, … It’s shocking how we’ve let this go on. And costs of intervening today are vastly...

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

No serious work whatever is under way within the government to link annual budgetary allocations with the international development goals the United States has endorsed. For example, the Bush administration has failed to produce even...