New Policies for Economic Development

　　Thank you for inviting me to speak here today. I’d like to use this opportunity to
talk about the Bush Administration’s economic development agenda. It is a big agenda
designed to help people around the world exit from extreme poverty. It stresses new
quantitative methods to achieve good economic policy and good economic results. It
includes substantial increases in development funding for the first time in many years.
And it applies new ideas in economic development—including many of the ideas coming
out of this conference series.