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We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.

We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.

We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.

To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.