Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact that we all have a shared human identity in addition to many other identities.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

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.