In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.

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.

[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a very hard thing to do for a first-generation schoolgoer. Because not to have parents at home who can help you, motivate you, is a problem even when the parents are in the abstract very keen on children being educated.

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

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.