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….

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

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

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

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….

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

Democracy is a universal value.

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..

South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan, they determined they were going in that….

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor..

If jobs are important, education is important..

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and the….

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….

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

I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when Buddha h….

I have not had any serious non-academic job..

The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, a….

I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving….

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in t….

An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's pride to be taken i….