Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

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 terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.