I Think Education Has A Bigger Impact

[the] Usa Has Been Immensely Successful In Making The Determination To Deal With Terrorism [as] A Factor In The Global World And, Similarly, If It Took A Similar Interest In Education, It Could Make A Difference.

But Once We Recognize That Many Ideas That Are Taken To Be Quintessentially Western Have Also Flourished In Other Civilizations, We Also See That These Ideas Are Not As Culture-specific As Is Sometimes Claimed. We Need Not Begin With Pessimism, At Least On This Ground, About The Prospects Of Reasoned Humanism In The World.

I Was Told Indian Women Don't Think Like That About Equality. But I Would Like To Argue That If They Don't Think Like That They Should Be Given A Real Opportunity To Think Like That.

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, Aimed Specifically At India And Bangladesh.

If The Government Is Vulnerable To Public Opinion, Then Famines Are A Dreadfully Bad Thing To Have. You Can’t Win Many Elections After A Famine, And You Don’t Like Being Criticized By Newspapers, Opposition Parties In Parliament, And So On. Democracy Gives The Government An Immediate Political Incentive To Act.