Globalization Is A Complex Issue, Partly Because

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.

Famines Occur Under A Colonial Administration, Like The British Raj In India Or For That Matter In Ireland, Or Under Military Dictators In One Country After Another, Like Somalia And Ethiopia, Or In One-party States Like The Soviet Union And China.

The Market Economy Succeeds Not Because Some People's Interests Are Suppressed And Other People Are Kept Out Of The Market, But Because People Gain Individual Advantage From It.

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.

Opportunity Could Be Defined In So Many Ways. There's One Way Of Defining It, Equality Of Opportunity, Which Is In Fact The Equality Of Capability, But The Libertarians Got There First And They Have - Like The Americans Getting Onto The Moon, Naming Every Crater After Something Like An Astronaut - They Have Got There And Named "opportunity" In A Way That We Cannot Get Ownership Of Now.