Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the biggest impact in reducing fertility is girls' education.

Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.