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.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

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

One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it has to be shaken into people's understanding and determination.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

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

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.