If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make a bigger impact on that than any other factor - not these various regulations [such as] you have to have one child or that. It turns out that none of these are effective.
Amartya SenChina had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.
Amartya SenI think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.
Amartya SenThe best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.
Amartya Sen