Amartya Sen Development Quotations

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.

Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

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

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

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