Development Requires Major Source Of Unfreedom: Poverty

To Say That Certainly America Was Very Lucky To Get A Large Amount Of Land, And The Native Indians Were Extremely Unlucky To Have White Men Coming Over Here, Is One Thing. But To Say That The Whole Of The American Prosperity Was Based On Exploiting The Indigenous Population Would Be A Great Mistake.

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 Work.

You Have To Be Interested In Inequality. The Issue Of Inequality And That Of Poverty Are Not Separable.

Education Makes Human Beings More Articulate. It Transforms People. You Can Think Differently About The World. It Makes It Possible For You To Get Jobs. It Makes A Dramatic Difference. It Generates A Social Equity That We Need.

I Really Do Believe That Education, Despite This Massive Potential In Transforming Human Lives, Has Not Received The Kind Of Attention That People Should Have Given To It.