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If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make a bigger impact on that than any other factor - not these various regulations [such as] you have to have one child or that. It turns out that none of these are effective.

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Amartya Sen
Age: 90
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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Shantiniketan
Amartya Kumar Sen
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It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.
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Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
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I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments, I blame the opposition as much. Why have they allowed the government to get away with it?
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Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
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