My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.
I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.
Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.
It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of the problems of fundamentalism and instability.
I have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn't know India.
You need to have a secure Israel, which is very clear, and you need to have a Palestinian community that feels it can have hope.
I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories.
I saw it with my own eyes: Israelis and Palestinians, arm in arm, walking off together and clearly pricing how you could get your truck to the top of the line or get it through at all. It was an absolutely transparently corrupt system at the border - you had to buy your truck's way across. I thought it was a disgrace.
My view is to try and not demonize the Palestinians. I'm not denying that there are Palestinians who fire rockets and do terrible things; I know that that happens. But to get a fundamental solution, you have to have hope on both sides.
We have made a full frontal attack on corruption. The question is whether we can address the question of governance in developing countries and, particularly, corruption.
The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt, it becomes more and more limiting in terms of the prospect that you have.
It is possible to have a public education system that works.
