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Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

Amartya Sen

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
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Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.
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[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
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I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.
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But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
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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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[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.
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We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.
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I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.
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I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.
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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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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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I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.
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