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

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.

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

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

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

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

If jobs are important, education is important.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

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

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.