If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an importan….

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy,….

I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a ….

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty.

[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….

The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the ov….

Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We ….

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….

80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's arma….

The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian, I think that's such a ….

One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classe….

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family..

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate..

We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on ot….

To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplificati….

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parti….

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another..

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable..

There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you ….

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'’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….