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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, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?
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Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
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When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which are regarded as quote unquote essential, the education is regarded inessential.
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It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit for going in that direction. It’s the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don’t see that as so patently obvious as it should be?
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Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.
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There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capability—having adequate resources to take part in the life of the community.
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I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
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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 even as we expand the availability of schooling.
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If jobs are important, education is important.
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The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
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[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
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Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
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There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.
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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.
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There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are women’s literacy and gainful economic employment.
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Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent
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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 need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.
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