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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.”

Quote by Amartya Sen

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Amartya Sen is an Indian economist renowned for his contributions to welfare economics, development economics, and ethics. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979 and is considered one of the most outstanding economists of the 20th century. more

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“I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.”

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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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“You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the governments stop them?”

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“If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You cant win many elections after a famine, and you dont like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.”

“There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.”

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“Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.”

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“I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.”

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“Theres a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and womens literacy and empowerment, including womens gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are womens literacy and gainful economic employment.”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.”

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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 dont really expect any credit for going in that direction. Its the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people dont see that as so patently obvious as it should be?”

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