You see evidence of poverty reduction in Argentina and extreme poverty has fallen to just 12 percent.

Mexico is trying to restrain the growth of spending and bring the public debt ratio down, and how they have tried to strike that balance has not compromised the objective of bringing the debt ratio down.

There is no doubt of the government's ability, commitment and desire to have a strong fiscal position and contain inflation, so we should wait and see how that strategy unfolds.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.