If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.

As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.

Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.