“When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aim...”
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Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an eminent economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indices of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries. **Source**: [Amartya Sen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen) on Wikipedia.
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“When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aim...”
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“It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and wor...”
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“From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.”
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“But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.”
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“People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.”
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“I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.”
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