By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.