The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, ….

I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a major impact of a positive kind in th….

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical..

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings..

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute.

Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fert….

I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or another, but basically ….

I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. The….

When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be ….

The themes that the anti-globalization protesters bring to the discussion are of extraordinary importance. However, the theses that they often bring ….

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable i….

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rath….

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat..

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationali….

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting..

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy..

Democracy is a universal value.

Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat. Quite a lot of the differences that….

Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected ….

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life..