In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great, learned speeches a….

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape huma….

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….

The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as….

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another..

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….

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?.

Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking ….

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their….

Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities become possible is something ….

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….

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain i….

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity..

It’s very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in th….

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….

[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and, similarly, if it to….

One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That’s v….

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power..

I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people sh….

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….

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means..