“When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be literate, to be able to have a basic health care everywhere, to be able to seek some kind of medical response to one's ailment; these become central issues in the Indian context which they're not in the UK, because you're well beyond that.”
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Amartya Sen
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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