Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

I'm leaving the door partly open, " he says as he follows Tegan. "You scream if you need me."Once he is outside, Richard says, "He does realize that if he hears your scream, it's already too late.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.

Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.