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What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

I happen to know a bit about banking.

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.

As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.

'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue.