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

To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

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.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.