While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection..

Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being..

Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that i….

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong..

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

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….

One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it h….

Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school….

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else..

Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [….

The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the book but also from cha….

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad..

Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you to get jo….

There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in high bu….

Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda..

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years..

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent.

South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in a way tr….

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active..

If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make ….

Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. An….