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Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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