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

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the book but also from chatting with other kids. It's a big impact. One of the curious things is that even when - and this we found from studies - the schools are doing pretty badly in terms of their education, about mathematics and literature and language, going to school transformed people because I think the action of schooling, the activity, is very important.

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.