In the past decade, Brazil has not grown very fast. It's urgent to create conditions for growth to accelerate.

After many years, the continent is showing growth that could deliver much more poverty reduction than in the recent past.

During the past few years, earnings have done far better than what economic growth alone would have suggested. Interestingly, we have found that the wider-than-expected profit margin, courtesy of surprisingly benign cost pressures, has helped turn good earnings performance into outstanding earnings performance in recent years.

Flipping through the book there are millions of stories on what is going on in countries and regions.

With the number of migrants worldwide now reaching almost £200m, their productivity and earnings are a powerful force for poverty reduction.

Remittances are hard-earned income that, in most cases, has already been taxed,