Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

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

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

We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.