But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

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

Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.

China 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.

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

No democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

Globalization has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

Democracy is a universal value

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.