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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
Economist
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
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Shantiniketan
Amartya Kumar Sen
Professor Amartya Kumar Sen
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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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I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.
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It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.
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Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.
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Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility. Women's do. So, by the way, as a man, it's not to the glory of men specifically that it's women's education that reduces child mortality.
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Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected was the Irish famine of the 1840s, which came close to 10 percent over a number of years.
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The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.
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China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.
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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 simplification.
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Poverty is not just a lack of money it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being
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the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute
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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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Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.
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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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There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
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Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
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Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.
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[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
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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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Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
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