Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

I think the (Brazilian) government has done most of the things it promised to do on the fiscal front, ... However, it has mismanaged the process so badly that the currency overshot.

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.

If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery; then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world