Occupation: Professor Birth: July 27, 1948 Death: February 7, 2017
My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible..
I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world..
Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!.
If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them..
Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population..
Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adap….
It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school..
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will ….
Britain didn't win WWII by panicking. Let´s be bold, determined and stick to the best of values..
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Micros….
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, t….
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from….