“Markets alone will not produce the growth in developing countries that will lift them out of poverty. Government intervention in the economy, and a degree of protectionism, will be needed in the early stages of development. These are the key findings of an independent Growth Commission made up of key policy makers and economists which was set up to find out the key elements that lead poor countries to get rich.”

“Remember Friday March 14 2008: it was the day the dream of global free- market capitalism died.”